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Emergency Medical Services Workforce for the 21st Century Project

Project Update: December 2007

Currently, the National EMS Workforce Assessment has completed review at NHTSA and is being prepared for publication. This report is expected to be released in the summer of 2008. The project has entered the policy development phase with development of the EMS Workforce Agenda for the Future. In conjunction with NHTSA and with assistance from the project steering committee, researchers at the Center for the Health Professions are working on a policy agenda for the future EMS workforce. A third stakeholder meeting to provide researchers with the opportunity to receive direct feedback from project stakeholders on the draft agenda document will be held in the spring of 2008, in Washington, DC.

Project Background:

The intent of this three-phase project of the Center for the Health Professions at the University of California, San Francisco, conducted in coordination with the University of Washington, is to assess the future of the EMS prehospital workforce in the United States. The project is funded by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA).

On September 11-12, 2006 in Arlington, VA the national stakeholders convened for a second time, kicking off phase two of the project. At the second meeting, researchers shared their assessment of the EMS workforce and stakeholders provided input and developed a list of priority policy areas and related goals. Policy implementation will take place in the third phase.

This website has provided a forum for the project researchers to update EMS stakeholders and the broader EMS community on the progress of the project and to receive input from the community. Our question-and-answer blog, which was updated with new questions regularly during the research phase of this project, contains a variety of questions about the EMS workforce, and informative, insightful responses from direct EMS providers. The blog can be visited by clicking here or on the EMS Workforce icon above. Although the assessment phase of this project has ended, we will be periodically updating the blog with questions for you comment on, so please check back for new content. We look forward to hearing from you!

Press releases:

• November 2006
• October 2005
• May 2005
• April 2005

Please click on the following links for related EMS information:

• Longitudinal Emergency Medical Technician Attributes & Demographics Study (LEADS)
  
• Institute of Medicine (IOM): The Future of Emergency Care in the United States Health System Project