Emergency medical services is commonly asked to do more with less. Advanced approaches to local credentialling can remove redundances to achieve better results with less time spent on continuing education and skills testing. A robust local credentialing program can meet standards for recertification, licensure, specialty certifications, and local needs while reducing time spent for traditional continuing education. Simple changes can eliminate the need for refresher courses and fully integrate credentialing at multiple levels with regulatory requirements. Traditional continuing education can be inefficient - newer strategies for low dose high frequency training and integration with operational tasks can dramatically reduce total time and cost commitment to provide high quality evidence of continued competency for EMS providers while improving quality and engagement.

This session will explore novel local approaches that can simultaneously address national, state and local requirements with an integrated program. Participants will learn how to remove artificial distinctions between training and operational tasks within emergency medical services, focusing on the single goal of preparedness for the patient's emergency. Tools such as operational needs analysis, assessment tools, and low dose high frequency approaches will align activities and get more bang for the buck to verify continued competency.
Learning Objectives:

Describe the steps of an operational needs analysis to determine focus areas for an integrated continuing competency program that meets local, state and national requirements.
Describe the use of low dose high frequency approaches in the local EMS environment
Describe the use of assessment methodologies for local competency verification in ways that integrate with operational requirements - such as cardiac arrest reviews