Educational Challenges in Emergency Medicine Technician: A Qualitative Research

Background & Objective: Since fewer educational problems lead to improvement in educational quality and eventually student performance in the delivery of emergency medical services at the clients bedside this study was conducted to evaluate the educational problems of emergency medical students   Methods: This study used qualitative conventional content analysis Data were collected by semistructured interviews Sixteen participants including ۱۲ new graduate paramedic in associate degree and ۴ instructors by purposeful sampling in Khorasan province Iran were selected Data analysis was conducted by content analysis   Results: After data analysis three themes have emerged including the lack of appropriate teaching methods theory and practice gaps and curriculum reform   Conclusion: According to the results educational problems in paramedic education were inappropriate teaching approaches not applying classroom content in practice scene and incomplete curriculum Therefore paramedic educational leadership must try to solve these problems until paramedics can provide high quality services to community

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Educational challenges , Paramedic , Education , Emergency medicine