[Temslist] Announcement: Online Continuing Education

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Forwarded from the Virginia Office of EMS...

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From: Chad L. Blosser [mailto:Chad.Blosser at vdh.virginia.gov] 
Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 2:12 PM
To: Recipient List Hidden by OEMS
Cc: 'Warren Short'; 'Thomas Nevetral'; 'Gregory Neiman'
Subject: Announcement: Online Continuing Education



Dear Provider,

Finally, it's here-online continuing education. 

Once upon a time, Warren Short-the Training Manager for the Office of EMS-promised a small group of EMT-Instructors and ALS-Coordinators that the Office was working on a process to allow continuing education (CE) earned online through third party vendors to be electronically received and applied to their CE Report.  

Warren spent months-which soon turned into years-developing the interface that would be necessary to import CE records electronically.  Once the interface was complete, Warren declared this and all things in the EMS Kingdom to be good.  Only now he found himself to be lonely.  "Would there be a vendor out there in the real world that could make this new interface work?" Warren pondered.

At the same time all this work was being done, instructors and coordinators would call the Office and ask: "Is it here yet? Is it here yet?"   Only to be told: "No, not yet."  After hearing this response for several years, instructors and coordinators alike fell into a state of disbelief.

Then suddenly, in early March of 2008, a nice lady named Nicole from 24-7EMS.com called the Office and inquired about providing CE records electronically to the Office of EMS.  The nice lady said: "If you give me a week, I promise I can make the interface work."  Warren and his staff were in a state of shock.  "Could it really be done?" exclaimed Tom.  "No way, they can't make it work in less than a week." stated Greg.  "Yeah right, I'll believe it when I see it!" said Chad.

Soon Nicole and the whole team at 24-7 EMS started working frantically to make the interface Warren built work.  They toiled for two long days.  On the morning of the third day, Nicole called the Office and said: "Warren, we have completed our work, the system is ready to test."  

Hearing this word, Warren promptly fainted and fell from his chair onto the hard floor below.   When Warren woke up, he was pleased to learn that his staff had worked all through the night and into the next day testing the system.  Nicole was right, the system worked.  Warren was very pleased.

The moral of this story is: If at first you don't succeed, try, try, again.

Here is everything you need to know about online continuing education in Virginia.

The Division of Educational Development has added an online option for fulfilling continuing education (CE) requirements. Only websites specified on the OEMS webpage will be utilized for online CE credit, as they have met the requirements set forth by OEMS. Courses completed by providers on non-approved websites will not receive credit towards their certification. 

In order to receive credit towards recertification, each provider must utilize the website links below and complete the registration form paying special attention to any links that are specific to Virginia's EMT's. 

Nightly, each approved vendor will send course results to OEMS electronically.  These credits will be automatically applied to the provider's OEMS CE Report within 24 to 36 hours of completion of the course.  Course completion certificates issued by the online CE vendor are printed out by the student for future reference - they are not to be sent to OEMS. 

Virginia providers must utilize their certification number and level as printed on their certification card. Failure to utilize the proper certification number and/or level will result in credit not being awarded. 

A list of approved online CE vendors can be found at the end of this announcement.  Each vendor website has its own price list and accepted forms of payment. 

§         TRAINVirginia, sponsored by the Virginia Department of Health - http://va.train.org <http://va.train.org/>  

§         24-7 EMS -  http://www.24-7EMSNow.com <http://www.24-7emsnow.com/>  

§         CentreLearn Solutions - http://www.centrelearn.com <http://www.centrelearn.com/>   

As other vendors meet the requirements set forth by OEMS, they will be listed on this page as eligible sites for online CE credit. Again, only the websites listed above may be utilized for CE credit in Virginia.   

 

http://www.vdh.virginia.gov/OEMS/Training/WebBasedCE.htm <http://www.vdh.virginia.gov/OEMS/Training/WebBasedCE.htm> 

 

Courses that are completed on websites that are not listed on this page will not be counted toward recertification. 

 

A brochure/flyer has been attached to this message.  Please feel free to post this in your agency and share it with your friends and family who are a part of the EMS community.  

 

Regards,

 

Chad Blosser

 

_____________________________________________________
 
Chad L. Blosser

Training and Development Specialist

Office of Emergency Medical Services

Virginia Department of Health

James Madison Building Suite UB-55

109 Governor Street

Richmond, VA 23219

 

Telephone number: 804-864-7624

Fax number: 804-864-7580

 

e-mail: chad.blosser at vdh.virginia.gov <mailto:chad.blosser at vdh.virginia.gov> 

on the web @: <http://www.vdh.virginia.gov/> www.vdh.virginia.gov/oems <http://www.vdh.virginia.gov/oems> 

 

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