We really need to improve gender and racial gaps in EMT and paramedics. Haven’t moved the needle over the past year. 80-90% white and ~80% male How is your system? National Registry of EMTs NAEMSP Eagles Coalition #NAEMSP2025

🌟 Kicking off Day 3 at #NAEMSP2025 w/Workforce Crisis in EMS: Reconciling Clinician Shortages with Opposing Forecasts at 8:00 AM. Join Christopher B. Gage, MHS, NRP (@Gagecb3), and Ashish R. Panchal, MD, as they tackle the challenges of clinician shortages and the future of EMS.

Christopher Gage and Ash Panchal, MD, Ph.D. presenting on projected needs of the EMS workforce. Among other points, hard to even know true numbers of who is working in EMS! #NAEMSP2025

The National EMS ID is one way to give an accurate count of #EMS clinicians. Being involved in the EMS Compact can also help to avoid double counts. Still don’t know who is actually WORKING in #EMS. Literature by Christopher Gage & National Registry of EMTs does show some impending growth! #NAEMSP2025

Christopher Gage National Registry of EMTs How many & who is leaving the #EMS workforce? Anyone with degrees, urban, any service other than fire-based. Highest turnover is private EMS. Adjusted turnover is around 15%. Ash Panchal, MD, Ph.D. Christopher Gage National Registry of EMTs #NAEMSP2025

What’s a team and what a productive NAEMSP conference! I’m incredibly lucky and thankful for this group of leaders and mentors. Onward and upward! @ohioNAEMSP National Registry of EMTs The Ohio State University College of Public Health Ohio State Emergency Medicine Residency The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center

So honored to talk at the NAEMSP annual meeting with Ash Panchal, MD, Ph.D. on EMS Workforce

“Spending some time with the Lord, asking for forgiveness.” We all mess up. Listen to these words from Ohio State RB TreVeyon Henderson

🎉

THE Ohio State University EMS team! #NAEMSP2025 Ohio State Emergency Medicine Residency

Did you know we're on more than just TikTok? Stay connected with the National Registry on Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, Reddit, and more! ___________ #NREMT #EMS #EMT #News

COVID-19 drastically changed everything—even how paramedics are trained. 🚨 A new study reveals the surprising impact of the pandemic on EMS education programs, from shutdowns and online learning to shifts in clinical experience. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11… #NREMT #EMS #Covid

New paper using LITES data. Enjoy! Adverse Prehospital Events and Outcomes After Traumatic Brain Injury jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

This study of 1.7M adult OHCA cases using NEMSIS data confirms that ETI remains the dominant airway strategy, 2018-2023, contrasting prior findings from smaller datasets. ja.ma/4ci6Meb Christopher Gage

Grateful to my co-authors and mentors who helped bring this study to life: Christopher Gage, Shea van den Bergh, L Logan, DMSc, MPAS, PA-C, Jonathan Powell, and Ash Panchal, MD, Ph.D. (National Registry of EMTs)

Will share this EVERY TIME I see it!! Happy Monday!!

🚨 JUST IN: A 12-year-old girl who survived the Camp Mystic, Texas floods just sang a rendition of "Hallelujah" on Fox News this morning. Amazing.