The Difficult Task of Allied Health Educators: Preparing Students for the Real World

This article was originally posted in our February 2017 Newsletter, by Tom Gottschalk, COO, Medical Educator Allied health educators are some of the most gifted people, and I feel privileged to know some of them. They are tasked to teach new inexperienced students the skills required to work in an ever-changing health care environment, often […]

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Q: As a student, what do I do if my Course or Class isn’t listed?

A: When students are attempting to submit enrollment into a course or class in our programs, what is listed for them to choose from are the current and upcoming courses or classes created by your institutions. If your Course or Class is not listed it may just be that it hasn’t been created yet, the […]

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Q: In Platinum Planner, does the preceptor training offered by Platinum grade itself automatically, or do the Instructors/Administrators need to grade each Preceptors test manually?

A: While Preceptor tests needed to be manually graded in the past, the Platinum Development team have made a major overhaul for Preceptor training (See More Here). In addition to the ability to customize Preceptor training to fit your organization’s needs, when a Preceptor completes the default Preceptor test now, the test is graded automatically […]

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NEW FEATURE: Ability to View our Global Forms as a School Admin in Platinum Planner!

Platinum Educational Group has had requests from our current customers to allow School Administrators to view our Global Forms before they choose to use them. This new feature is now live! Sign in with your School Administrator account, then go to Options > Manage Forms. There is a new Global tab. In the Global tab […]

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NEW FEATURE: Ability to Customize Preceptor Training in Platinum Planner!

Platinum Educational Group realizes that Schools often need the ability to customize or create their own training from within Platinum Planner. That is why we are currently working on a new feature for Schools to be able to customize their own Preceptor Training! In addition, Schools and Teachers will be able to review, auto-grade the […]

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NEW FEATURE: Enhanced Control for Shared Sites

Many of our valued customers have asked for the ability to change locations and times for Shared Site opportunities in Platinum Planner. This feature works well for students in shared sites that don’t know where they will be assigned to for the day until they show up to the opportunity. This feature is scheduled to […]

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Updates to Appendix F & G in Platinum Planner

Updates to Appendix F Appendix F now displays a list of all preceptors that are associated with the site/location via approved student clinical documentation. The other update shows if the preceptor was trained and the date of training. If the preceptor was not trained, the column will show Pending. Update to Appendix G Appendix G […]

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New CoAEMSP Report Available for Schools in Platinum Planner!

Platinum Educational Group worked with CoAEMSP to bring you a new report to help during accreditation. The CoAEMSP Course Progress Report (3c2) *BETA*, tracks the number of times students successfully perform competencies required in their Course, then by Gender, Age, Hours, Global Clinical Skills and/or Custom School Skills. Custom School Skills are marked in the […]

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Q: When setting up the “Hours Requirements” for a course in Platinum Planner, what is the difference in between “EMS” and “EMS Field Internship?”

A: “EMS” hours are traditionally ambulance hours that occur during the students’ normal clinical rotation. This is considered “Field Experience” by CoAEMSP, which they define as: “Planned, scheduled, educational student time spent on an EMS unit, which may include observation and skill development, but which does not include field internship (capstone) team leading and does […]

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