The Conference I wish I was going to.
As I’ve mentioned I am going to JEMS – EMS Today in March. Great conference, great speakers, great chance to find out what’s going on in EMS.
But if I could go to only one conference this year – and I am kicking myself that this is not the one I am going to (because I didn’t think to check into it), it would be the Conference of the Eagles Coalition held in Dallas, Texas from February 16-17.
The Eagles are the EMS medical directors of the nation’s largest EMS systems, including doctors like Paul Pepe who are on the leading edge of EMS care.
Check this out for an Agenda.
Fortunately many of the Eagles will be at JEMS giving presentations of their findings.
I’ll try to go to as many as I can and report back.









Oddly high percentage of medical directors from fire-based services. Like Dallas Fire. Miami Fire. NYC Fire. Seattle Medic One (Fire-based).
That’s an interesting comment, which begs the eternal question of can fire-based EMS be patient-focused progressive EMS, or will it always be a side business to dragging hose? I’ve worked in systems with fire first responders who couldn’t care less about medical calls, and in systems with fire medics who transported who were as sharp as any transport-only medics I’ve known…