New Interpretations article continued / MARCH 2019 eUPDATE
[The underlined language is the new approved language.]

Standard III.A.2.

Interpretation (second paragraph)
The program must set and require minimum competency numbers of patient contacts for each listed category. Those minimum numbers must be approved by the Medical Director and endorsed by the Advisory Committee with documentation of those actions. The tracking documentation must then show those minimums and that each student has met them. There must be periodic evaluation that the established minimums are adequate to achieve competency. No minimum number can be fewer than two (2), including each pediatric age subgroup. Two patient encounters in each pediatric subgroup must be live and cannot be achieved through simulation.

Standard III.C.3.

Last Sentence in Interpretation
“To be counted as a Team Lead the Paramedic student must accompany the transport team to a higher level of care and function as Team Leader with the exception of termination of resuscitation in the field”. conduct a comprehensive assessment, establish a field impression, determine patient acuity, formulate a treatment plan, direct the treatment, and direct and participate in the transport of the patient to a medical facility, transfer of care to a higher level of medical authority, or termination of care in the field.

For the capstone field internship to meet the breadth of the paramedic profession, team leads must include transport to a medical facility and may occasionally include calls involving transfer of care to an equal level or higher level of medical authority, termination of care in the field, or patient refusal of care. Capstone field internship team leads cannot be accomplished with simulation.

Additionally, CAAHEP updated its definition of a satellite. The text that is crossed out is what was removed from the definition:

CAAHEP Satellite Definition – off-campus location(s) that are advertised or otherwise made known to
individuals outside the sponsor. The off-campus location(s) must offer all the professional didactic and laboratory content of the program. A satellite does not pertain to sites used by a completely online/distance education program for individual students. Satellite(s) are included in the CAAHEP accreditation of the sponsor and function under the direction of the Key Personnel of the program. Committees on Accreditation may establish additional requirements that are consistent with CAAHEP Standards and policies. CoAs must inform CAAHEP of the addition of an approved satellite.