The Paramedic Instructor Resources User’s Guide
“Tell me and I will forget,
Show me, and I might remember,
Involve me and I will understand.”
Association for Experiential Education
Paramedic instructors, you will be stunned by the resources that support this text.
The student and instructor ancillaries McGraw-Hill has developed offer a full range of features to
accommodate various teaching and learning styles. The materials speak to the structure needed
for the left brain to organize new information and are visually appealing to the right brain. If you
are a traditional lecturer, you will find it easy to use the lesson plans and slides. If you are a
nontraditional instructor, you will find alternative slides and active learning exercises to
complement each lesson. We are confident that the depth and variety of these tools will support
you in producing the best prepared graduates.
Guiding Principles for Instructor Materials
The materials we have designed for this text incorporate cutting edge concepts in teaching and
learning. As with the rest of this text, these concepts are supported by strong research and
evidence for “best practices.” These concepts include the following:
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Patient-focused lessons: As much as possible, the lessons include vignettes, scenarios,
and street secrets that are focused on real people. You should be able to see easily that
learning is centered on assessing and treating people, not just their illness or injury.
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Responsive lecture format: Optional critical thinking questions, active learning exercises,
and audience participation questions are embedded in the lecture. You may choose to have
the students keep a response form in front of them and collect or grade their responses after
class. If you like to use technology in the classroom you may want to explore the use of einstruction® remotes in your classroom. More information may be found at
www.einstruction.com
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Multiple-choice questions: To prepare the student for better test performance, each
chapter includes multiple-choice items that are presented in-line with lecture, or they can be
administered as a pre or post lecture quiz.
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Computerized Test bank: In addition to the questions that are embedded in the
PowerPoint® slides this instructor manual comes with a fully featured test bank loaded with
over 1000 distinct items.
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Scenario-based learning and guided lecture process: This style of lecture can be used by
asking the student to put into practice what they have learned in the assigned chapter
reading. Each lesson begins with a practical, real-life case and ends with a detailed scenario.
You can encourage students to report what they already know about the subject of the
lecture and clarify errors or focus on additional depth of new information. The scenarios at the
conclusion of the lessons can be as simple as a quick review of the lecture, or they can be
used as a tool for problem based learning and lab simulation.
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“Show me” concepts: Throughout the Instructor Manual, we have elected to “show” as
much as possible, using rich photographs and detailed illustrations. The photos take up
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most, if not all, of the slide space. These slides will impact your students and are enriched
with simple animations to improve understanding and minimize student fatigue. Never before
has a paramedic textbook package used this many images. Word slides have been kept to a
minimum and detailed notes help you use the image-based slides more effectively.
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Instructor notes: For the first time in an EMS slide set, the notes for each slide are
contained in the Notes section of PowerPoint, making them immediately available during
lecture. This convenient, state-of-the-art method allows you to view the notes while the
students view the slide and does not require additional printing. Extra tips, references, and
full text explanations will help you prepare and deliver a lecture without having to carry an
extra manual.
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Anatomy and physiology: McGraw-Hill Higher Education has some of the world’s best
anatomy and physiology textbooks. We have packed the slide set, DVD, and Online Learning
Center full of detailed A&P images, illustrations, and even video animations. Add these to
your PowerPoint slides, show them by themselves, or simply assign the students to view
them online. Our hope is that concepts, such as sodium-channels and action potentials of
cardiac cells, will become much more fun for you to explain and your students to learn.
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Step-by-Step Skill PowerPoint slides: You will notice that detailed explanations of step-bystep procedures for skills have been printed in the worktext. We have organized the book and
worktext in the same manner as you teach it in class, focusing the book on cognitive learning
and keeping the hands-on practical (psychomotor) domain for the more active learning
worktext. In addition to organizing the material in the same way that it is taught in class, this
allows the student to take a smaller book to practical skills labs and allows you to have
separate PowerPoint slides that focus on each of the skills you demonstrate. Forty-five Step
by-Step PowerPoint presentations are included. These include stunning close-ups of each
skill and never-before-seen realism for each skill. You can use them “as is” or customize the
order of the steps or particular technique that is unique to your program or region.
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The future: Although we have included references to the current 1998 National Standard
Curriculum in our entire array of instructor tools, we are also prepared for the new standards.
The editors and chapter contributors used the Core Content and Practice Analysis Tasks to
guide the objectives and content for the chapter. Instructors can search the lesson files
(PowerPoint or Word documents) for key DOT objectives by number or key words using the
standard search function in the Windows start menu. Each item in the test bank relates back
to the current curriculum as well.
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Instructor-developed material: The instructor material for this book was developed by a
cadre of experienced instructors with over 100 years of combined teaching experience.
Teaching tips, tricks, and key lesson objectives were incorporated from each of the Instructor
Manual contributors. The slides were built by the instructor development team with you,
students, and patients in mind.
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Scenario Playbook: The instructor lesson plans each include a detailed scenario that may
be used in a skill session or after a lecture to bring to life the theory of a lecture. These
scenarios are presented at the end of each PowerPoint® slide set but also have been
condensed on a single sheet of paper in the instructor lesson plans. We taken the scenarios
one step further and created a Scenario Playbook which contains all 52 scenarios in a single
word document, with a handy color-coded cover sheet for quick reference. You will never
have trouble rapidly finding a scenario to run with your students.
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Instructor Supplements
For the instructor, we have developed a stunning array of tools that we believe will give you what
you need to build the course you want, rather than building your course around available
resources.
The Instructor Productivity Center, provided on DVD, contains the following content:
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Lesson plans for each chapter
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Creative PowerPoint presentation, which include case studies, lecture notes, animations,
photographs, video clips, handouts, games, and exercises
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Word document with Need to Know objectives (including Practice Analysis Tasks,
National EMS Core Content, Paramedic National Standard Curriculum Objectives, and
Unit Terminal Objectives); Need to Know Bullets; Teacher Toolbox; Skills information;
and extra Case Scenarios
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Computerized test generator with 1,100 questions
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Image collection
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Step-by-Steps in a Shockwave video and PowerPoint format that show skills being
performed correctly; text “bubbles” and arrows point to key aspects of skill performance
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National Registry Skill Practice clips showing “Do’s and Don’ts”
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PDF and Word versions of approximately 100 Skill Sheets
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Anatomy and physiology animations
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Drug administration animation
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I Spy exercises with photographs and accompanying questions
Instructors can also access the Online Learning Center at www.mhhe.com/chapleau1e for the
following:
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Chapter-by-chapter student quiz bank, including questions keyed to photographs and
video clips, such as “Show Me” video clips that show real people experiencing real
medical emergencies and Patient Perspective video clips of interviews/vignettes with
victims and survivors
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Audio Glossary with pronunciations of key terms
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Games and exercises, such as drug flashcards, ECG and A&P exercises, and puzzles
While this gives you some sense of what we’ve brought to publication in support of our text and
the educators who choose to use it, it is just the beginning of a commitment to continue to find
ways to provide resources to our readers and educators. Use our publications secure in the
knowledge that this is a dynamic process and we will continue to enhance existing resources and
build new ones based on the feedback from you, the instructors who have placed your trust in us.
We are grateful for that trust and will continue to work to show we are worthy of that trust.
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User’s Guide for The Paramedic slide set
Each chapter in the textbook is accompanied by a single comprehensive PowerPoint®
presentation on the instructor DVD. Unlike some of the traditional PowerPoint® slide sets that
accompany EMS textbooks, these slides are sure to turn some heads. They use custom
animations and the notes sections. We recommend that you take some time to become familiar
with them before using them in class.
You will notice the detail and depth in these files. We’ve designed the presentations so that you
have the ability to thoroughly cover a topic. There are no time suggestions as we understand that
each program may need to adhere to particular state and local requirements. Feel free to edit,
delete and add slides that make sense for your teaching style and audience.
Slide set features:
Animations:
Unlike many slide sets provided by a publisher, these PowerPoint® slides use animations and
slide-builds. Objects are either set to appear automatically, or after a manual click of the mouse.
Before showing these presentations in class, please view them in presentation mode to become
familiar with timings and slide behavior after a click. (to edit the timing of a custom animation
simply select the object, or figure, by clicking on it once, then go to the Slide Show menu and
select Custom Animation. You will then be able to see and change any of the timing or effects of
the animations.
Opening Case: Each presentation begins with a case to wet the appetite of the learner. This is
part of our patient-focused lesson plan. It gives you a chance to introduce the subject of the day
with an assessment of how much your students may already know about the topic. Look for the
notes in the “Notes” section of the slides to ask questions of your students. In addition, there will
always be a “SICK? Not-yet-sick?” slide to help teach students to make early determinations
about the acuity of a patient with partial information.
Introduction: This brief section helps frame the lesson and describes the major content to be
covered.
Main sections: Each main section corresponds to the main section in the textbook and has a full
slide to help identify the beginning of a new topic.
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Applied Anatomy and Physiology: This section contains a blend of multiple choice
questions and exciting images to help the student visualize the human body and it’s
function.
Pathophysiology: This section provides a framework to discuss what happens when
the normal anatomy and physiological processes are not working properly.
Assessment: This section is broken down into two:
o Primary Survey: describes the most important assessments that will identify
and help treat life threatening problems
o Secondary Survey: describes the more detailed and methodical assessment
of each affected body system
Specific Conditions: This section describes signs, symptoms, assessments and
specific treatments for particular problems that are discussed in the chapter.
Summary: The summary slides are a brief wrap-up of the lesson.
Street Secrets: These slides are sprinkled throughout the presentation. They are meant to help
break up the main lecture with street-smart tips that are not necessarily found in the textbook.
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Multiple Choice Questions slides: You will see slides with the orange question mark. This icon
is a key reference for both the instructor and students. It helps you know that the following slide
contains the answer to the question being asked.
End Section:
Teacher Toolbox: This section contains active learning exercises such as group
discussions, practice exercises, games, a scenario, and additional exploratory activities. Where
applicable we have also used this section to provide you with alternate slides. These alternative
are meant to be used as a supplement to the regular lecture.
Step-by-step skill sheets are listed at the end of the PowerPoint® presentation. Each
skill sheet is accompanied by a word document and an additional slide set dedicated to that skill.
Skills:
Each step-by-step skill listed in the textbook and worktext includes:
- a detailed PowerPoint® presentation for instructors
- a lab skill check-off sheet that matches the PowerPoint
A&P animations:
In the folder for each chapter we have included animations and short videos focusing on Anatomy
and Physiology topics.
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