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Cameron: Queen’s Jubilee Medal

Cheryl Cameron was awarded the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Medal at a virtual ceremony in January 2023. Cheryl was recognised for her services to palliative care[…]

Bolster et al. Emerging Concepts in the Paramedicine Literature to Inform the Revision of a Pan-Canadian Competency Framework for Paramedics

Bolster J, Pithia P, Batt A M (December 23, 2022) Emerging Concepts in the Paramedicine Literature to Inform the Revision of a Pan-CanadianCompetency Framework for[…]

Murray et al. Does patient and public involvement influence development of competency frameworks in the health professions? A systematic review

Murray, N., Palermo, C. Batt, A.M., Bell, K. Does patient and public involvement influence development of competency frameworks in the health professions? A systematic review.[…]

Barry et al. Potential for Paramedic Roles in Irish General Practice: A qualitative study of stakeholder’s perspectives

Barry T, Batt A, Agarwal G et al. Potential for Paramedic roles in Irish General Practice: A qualitative study of stakeholder’s perspectives [version 1; peer[…]

PHECC Community paramedicine practice framework scoping exercise and restricted review

Community Paramedicine Practice Framework Scoping Exercise To gain an insight into how community paramedicine systems operate in other jurisdictions, PHECC have partnered with Monash University,[…]

A six-step model for developing competency frameworks in the healthcare professions

Competency frameworks are developed for a variety of purposes, including describing professional practice and informing education and assessment frameworks. Despite the volume of competency frameworks[…]

Advances in Community Paramedicine in Response to COVID-19

Download the report for free here Executive Summary Paramedics across Canada work collaboratively with other community partners to help ensure patients receive the services they[…]

New ways of seeing: supplementing existing competency framework development guidelines with systems thinking

05/05/2021 – this paper has now been accepted for publication in Advances in Health Sciences Education. The accepted version can be viewed here: The revised[…]

Dealing with dying – progressing paramedics’ role in grief support.

I had the pleasure of working with Cheryl, Tyne and Chelsea to co-author this article focused on improving the role of paramedics in supporting those[…]

Gulf OHCA Scoping Review Published

Our scoping review of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in the Gulf Region is now in-press with the WHO EMRO EMHJ journal. In this review, we make[…]