About GeorgiaEMSAcademy.com

 GeorgiaEMSAcademy.com is a new online education system designed just for Georgia EMS providers.   Currently, GeorgiaEMSAcademy.com offers new, interesting, original, and exciting EMS continuing education.  What is unique about GeorgiaEMSAcademy.com is that it was conceived, developed, and presented to you today with you, the Georgia EMS provider in mind.  The thoughtful curriculum  provides you with useful information that you can easily translate into better patient care.  It’s that simple.  For you, the goal should be achieving better patient care, and GeorgiaEMSAcademy.com wants to help you achieve that goal.  Click here to download a copy of the approval form issued by SOEMS.

What we understand is the EMS lifestyle.  You work long hours, often at multiple jobs.  You work with a fragmented and overused medical system.  Many of you are Firefighters, and volunteer Firefighters.  You definitely don’t do this for the money, but for the excitement and the opportunity to help your fellow man.  The public and even the hospital may not understand what you do and why you are here, but GeorgiaEMSAcademy.com does. 

Currently this site offers 40 hours of quality continuing education provided to you in an easy to use and interesting format that you can access anytime, 24/7.  So what is continuing education?  Continuing education is defined as an instructional program that brings participants up to date in a particular area of knowledge or skills.  Medicine is a rapidly evolving and changing field, however, some thing in EMS really have remained the same since the beginning.  What GeorgiaEMSAcademy.com understands is that EMS training tends cover a variety of subjects in somewhat of an uneven manner (some subjects go into significant depth and others tend to skip across the subject).  Further, some of the details of what you were taught are quickly forgotten once you graduate from initial training.  The curriculum presented in GeorgiaEMSAcademy.com attempts to review subjects that you may have forgotten but is often left out of conventional continuing education courses (like live birth or drug dose calculations).  Other parts of the material will try to teach you something new.  At every turn, the presentation attempts to be interactive (allowing you to do something instead of just read or hear something).  Currently, Georgia requires its’ EMS personnel to undergo 40 hours of continuing education every 2 years.  At GeorgiaEMSAcademy.com, we feel that this is a bare minimum.  Given the challenges of the EMS, we believe you need more than that, which is why we suggest enrolling in our program and continuing to enroll in courses like PALS, PEPP, EVOC, CEVO, PHTLS, BTLS, and any other course you can take.  Learning is an everyday commitment; in the end, it’s about delivering good patient care.

Lead Instructor:

Instructor Matthew G. Crews has an extensive history in EMS.  Instructor Crews started his EMS career in the Army after being cross-trained as an EMT (primary job was an Infantryman) in 1991.  After the intensive two week training course, Instructor Crews found himself strangely interested in the field of Emergency Medicine and at the same time unusually unprepared to fill the role of EMT.  After he completed his service, he started working at various private ambulance services in the metro Atlanta area while attending Paramedic school at DeKalb Technical Institute.  Instructor Crews later worked for DeKalb EMS (and later DeKalb Fire Rescue Services).  During his years of service in DeKalb, Instructor Crews served as a Paramedic, Senior Paramedic, Field Training Officer, and EMS Instructor at the DeKalb Fire Rescue Academy.  For many of those years, Instructor Crews worked part time as an adjunct Instructor at DeKalb Technical Institute.  In addition to EMS, Instructor Crews has an obsessive attraction to computers, which led him to develop an eLearning system for DeKalb known as ‘eCampus’.  Instructor Crews is also an accomplished technical writer, which made him a good choice to write this year’s curriculum.  Instructor Crews currently works full time at the company he created, CrewSolutions, Inc.

Dr. Stephen Holbrook, MD