NAEMSE | 5 The National Association of EMS Educators (NAEMSE) is a national, professional association comprised of more than 3,000 educators, instructors, teachers, training officers, directors and advisors for Emergency Medical Services (EMS) training institutions, organizations and volunteer EMS services from both the public and private sector. NAEMSE was founded in 1995 by Dr. Walt Stoy affiliated with the Center for Emergency Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. For the last 18 years, NAEMSE has provided an opportunity for EMS educators to share insight and information concerning all aspects of EMS education at all levels; adhering to its mission to meet the wide range of educational needs required by those providing instruction to pre-hospital EMS personnel. As the leader in EMS education, NAEMSE activities include an annual education and research symposia that provides continuing education for EMS educators from around the world. NAEMSE has also developed two National Instructor Courses that provides in-depth facilitation of the foundations of education. The course has successfully trained more than 6,000 EMS educators and has been adopted in 40 states as well as Canada. NAEMSE also proudly provides the training for the U.S. Combat Medics through curriculum conducted at Ft. Sam Houston in Texas. NAEMSE additionally collaborates with the Committee on Accreditation of Educational Programs for the Emergency Medical Services Professions (CoAEMSP) to provide accreditation workshops to EMS Program Directors as they prepare their applications which lead to accreditation. The Association’s has tirelessly worked with the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Office of EMS on a range of projects which include: the National EMS Education Standards, the 2002 National Guidelines for EMS Education, State of EMS Education Research Project, rollout of the National Standard Curricula (NSC), development of The Revised EMS Instructor Curricula, and much more. NAEMSE has proven highly effective in developing and maintaining partnerships with Federal, State and local EMS agencies to promote the understanding of the EMS system. It has also worked with NHTSA to provide a nationwide forum for assistance in the implementation of the various curricula through the EMS Instructor Rollout Workshops, National Standard Curricula Guidelines for Training of Paramedics and EMT-
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