Learn - leaders in education around rural need - bringing primary and continuing education to the rural setting, utilizing face-to-face , on-line, and distance learning tools. - UTE pass regional…

Learn - leaders in education around rural need - bringing primary and continuing education to the rural setting, utilizing face-to-face , on-line, and distance learning tools. - UTE pass regional health service district (uprhsd) is offering emergency medical service (EMS) learning opportunities for residents of the district and expanding learning opportunities to the rural population with technology-enhanced education (tee). Through the leaders in education around rural need (learn) program, rural students will engage in primary and continuing education /advanced EMS certification. This program will allow students to access course material without driving an hour or more to get to a city offering collegiate-level classes. In these rural areas, emergency calls take longer to respond to, and the transport time to definitive intervention for critical patients is extended, necessitating a higher provider level working the calls. The level of new provider training is limited to those residents who can drive over an hour each way for classes, multiple days a week, or who are already trained and can be recruited from outside the district. Uprhsd will continue offering EMS education in partnership with established EMS training sites, allowing students from the teller county, CO area to do some classwork closer to home. This year, the learn program will equip the uprhsd classroom to produce podcast-style mini-trainings and incident debriefs, host an interactive simulation lab for immersive training, record and edit training materials, and live-stream classes to 360 students annually, regardless of their proximity to the building. Learn will provide supplies, equipment, and training on specific medications that will benefit populations at risk for alcohol or substance use disorder. Principles from social distancing have given the learn program ideas on effectively connecting and teaching residents interested in learning and furthering EMS skills.