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Michael D. Smith: Male
Lancaster, United States

Residence.: Lancaster, OH

Department:: City of Grandview Heights Division of Fire

Title/rank:: Firefighter/Paramedic

Years of public service:: 21

Agency structure:: Paid fire department

Top issues in your department:: Training

Professional Qualifications:: NREMT-P, CCEMT-P, EMS Instructor, Fire Safety Inspector,

Topics you provide training for:: All EMS topics, Critical thinking, Crew Resouce Managment

Areas of expertise:: EMS, Paramedicine, Prehospital Helicopter EMS

Bio:: AAS Fire/EMS, Firefighter, Paramedic, Flight Paramedic, EMS Instructor
City of Grandview Heights Division of Fire, MedFlight of Ohio, Grant Medical Center's LifeLink, Ohio University-Lancaster.

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Doing our own EMS

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Joe, Good luck this is a tough sell sometimes to the local government and often to the fire fighters who may not be too willing to ride the squad. Try checking with your state's ems department or s... Read More »

Fire Based EMS

Added a reply Apr 21

At my department we all are fire/medics, we all rotate positions on the medic and the engine. In our area we are a small suburban department which is referred to as an either/or station, either the... Read More »

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First time Registry test taker

While I have been in EMS for 21+ years I have never taken the National Registry of EMT's Paramedic exam, until this past Thursday. I have to say that I have always been leery to try, what if I can't even pass the exam I have been teaching new medic students to pass just to enter the profession? Since our medic students must take and pass this exam, I was convinced by one of our other instruct…

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Posted by Michael D. Smith on April 19th, 2008 at 10:06pm — 4 Comments (Add)

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At 8:24pm on April 12th, 2008, David Ebel said…: Visit Emergency and Disaster Responders

At 9:17pm on April 6th, 2008, Mike Walker said…: Hey Mike

I started a group about High-Rise tactics a few days ago. Please check out the group and throw in your two-cents.

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