By Doug Smith, CEO, Medical Educator One of our ultimate goals at Platinum Educational Group is to help create a competent, confident, and CARING provider. It is the caring provider that is formed using the affective domain. This article is designed to help the reader better understand that domain. The affective domain deals with a […]
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How Do I Best Use the Curricula?
By Doug Smith, CEO, Medical Educator EMSTesting uses four different curricula. We will be reducing the curricula to three, eliminating the NR2011. I will explain more below: NR2011 The NR 2011 is the National Registry Practice Analysis that was released in 2011. This should no longer be used at all and we plan on removing […]
National Online Software Leaders Work Together to Meet Technical Colleges and Higher Education Institutional Needs
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. – As a leader in assessment, clinical tracking, scheduling, and reporting for nursing, allied health, and EMS institutions, Platinum Educational Group understands the importance of keeping track of students’ needs on one online platform. This also includes background checking and screening. Platinum is pleased to announce its new collaboration with Corporate Screening, […]
The Truth in Validity
The subject of testing validity comes up quite a bit in the EMS education industry. It’s a topic of tremendous importance because it descends from honesty and integrity. These are ideals held important to us in the EMS Education field. It is particularly significant to Platinum Educational Group, as it is the backbone of our […]
Q: My student purchased an access code for the wrong provider level from the bookstore (or online vender). Can they still use that to pay their course enrollment fee, or do they need to return it and exchange it for the correct one?
A: The answer used to be that students had to return the access code to whoever they purchased it from, as access codes have different values based on the provider level, and based on whether it is an EMSTesting.com access code or a Platinum Planner access code. There was not a way for a student […]
NEW FEATURE: Platinum Planner Mobile App 2.0 Release
Platinum Educational Group is proud to release Version 2.0 of the Platinum Planner mobile app for the Google Play store and Apple Store. We have addressed syncing issues that may have occurred for some users in the past. If syncing has not been addressed for you, please contact us and let us know by contacting […]
Evaluation of the Elusive Affective Domain
This article originally appeared in our November 2016 Newsletter by John Spencer, Customer Support Manager, Lead Medical Educator Cognitive, Psychomotor, and Affective are the three domains of learning that we must evaluate as instructors. The cognitive domain focuses on knowledge and is easily evaluated using quizzes and tests. The psychomotor domain focuses on the use […]
The Unknown Patient: As Opposed to the Textbook Patient
This article was published in the December 2016 newsletter by Doug Smith, CEO, Medical Educator We often hear feedback from the students indicating what they are being exposed to on a question is different than what is in their textbook. Many times they have been conditioned through school and publisher textbooks that the text is […]
Culling the Herd: Changing our Industry One Classroom at a Time
This article originally appeared in our November 2016 Newsletter by John Spencer, Customer Support Manager, Lead Medical Educator EMS professionals are those that people call when they are sick, injured, or in need of some type of help. They are granted intimate access into people’s homes and lives. People trust them to see them when […]
Introducing Platinum’s Knowledgebase!
Platinum Educational Group is striving to give you every tool possible to help you succeed in your endeavors. Within the past few months, we have officially released a brand new way to help our customers even more! Our newest tool, called the “Knowledgebase”, is a place where both instructors and students can get their questions […]