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The Battalion
Thursday, August 5,1993
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A&M works to improve EMS quality
By GENEEN PIPHER
The Battnlioii
Texas A&M University Medical Services
(TAMU EMS) installed a cutting-edge quality
improvement program in July.
The first phase of the program helps TAMU
EMS keep more accurate patient charts and
records and allows better evaluation of their
techniques. The second phase keeps track of
incident reports and targets problem areas.
Michael Fraley, chief of the TAMU EMS,
said the organization had no formal quality
improvement program previously.
"The state just started requiring quality im
provement programs just this year as part of
our licensing," he said. "Quality improve
ment is the big trend right now."
Metrocrest Medical Services Inc. is the non
profit organization that provided the program
to A&M free of charge.
Fraley said Metrocrest Medical Services had
a special interest and understanding of the
TAMU EMS needs.
"What is nice about this quality improve
ment program is that both of the people work
ing on this project were Texas A&M gradu
ates," Fraley said. "They used to work here;
they knew our needs; they knew we needed
new equipment."
Although all EMS services in Texas are re
quired by law to have quality improvement
programs, David Phillips, quality improve
ment director and former student, said few
services have the resources to assemble a pro
gram of this scope and magnitude.
"By concentrating the expertise, research
and resources in one place, companies like
Metrocrest Medical Services are able to pro
vide a comprehensive, progressive program to
EMS services," he said.
He said the program includes the very lat
est in medical protocols, quality assessment
tools and support software.
"This quality improvement program will al
low the TAMU EMS to evaluate the perfor
mance of their emergency ambulance system
very precisely, to accurately document their
findings and needs and to effectively direct
such interventions as continuing education to
improve the service's performance," he said.
Fraley said the new program has made
their already good patient care even better.
"This program helps to identify problem ar
eas and trends," he said. "We will he seeing
better patient care and better qualified medics.
It was a really good service to begin with,ar
hopefully it will identify the subtle problems
Grant Kirby, TAMU EMS paramedic ar
captain of the training department, said the
new program is very beneficial.
"It makes you very self conscious about the
way you write your reports and treat your pa
tients," Kirby said. "The program helps you
organize your whole approach to caring fore
patient. When you are writing your reports,!
is easy to forget the little things, that is, where
the program helps —with the subtleties."
Kirby said he can already see a difference in lor
the EMS service.
"I think it has increased our professional
ism," he said. "I can already see a change in
my patient care."
Fraley said, "We have already seen some
drastic changes in the way the medics attend
to p>atients. This provides better pratientcare
by making sure that we do the right thing at
the right time."
Most patients will not realize that *the pro
gram was put into pdace, Fraley said.
"It probably will not be something a patient
will see," he said. "Luckily most of our
tients only see us once, but when they do, they
will get the best possible care."
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remove them."
But Tate said whether or not
the parent is college educated or
certified to teach has little effect
on the quality of the teaching.
"Certification has never been
proven to be of measurable value
in education," he said. "In fact,
when the results of teaching by
certified teacher and uncertified
teacher are compared, the results
are very heavily in favor of using
uncertified teachers."
Dr. Donna Wiseman, associate
dean for teacher education in the
collegtT of education, said in some
instances, learning can be
achieved with good individual at
tention, but certified teachers are
more prepared to educate large
groups.
"In the area of problem solv-*
ing, an educated, certified teacher
using proven techniques will be
far better teaching with large
groups," Wiseman said.
But Tate said most states now
are accepting or "begging" for
non-certified teachers.
In 1988, Houston had more
than 500 non-certified teachers in
the classrooms, he said.
Wiseman said most of these
non-certified teachers don't stay
very long because they are not
used to dealing with people of di
verse backgrounds and behavior
so they become discouraged.
"The only factor guaranteeing
success in teaching is the absolute
commitment of the teacher to do
whatever is necessary for the stu
dent to learn the desired subject,"
Tate said.
Wiseman said, "Parental in
volvement is a great indicator of
school achievement, whether the
parents home educate their chil
dren or work."
"Parents have the right to edu
cate their children," she said. "My
concern is quality control. Some
parents are prepared to teach their
children and some are not."
Sandy Kibby, legislative con
sultant for the 46X38 PTA, said the
organization wants more legisla
tive guidelines for home schools
and other —-"non-’&pproved"
schools in order to meet the same
minimum educational standards
as public schools.
Annette Cootes, information
officer for the Texas State Teach
ers Association, agreed, and said
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research abroad in the country of your choice.
To find out more, come to our Informational
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Study Abroad Program Office at 161 Bizzell
Hall West (845-0544).
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there is concern that children in
home schools miss "a valuable
lesson in socialization" by not go
ing to a traditional school.
"Getting along with people
with different backgrounds is as
important as academics," she said.
"Kindergarten is the melting pot
for children."
But Cindy Bodiford, a graduate
student in sociology who home
schools her children, said the state
has no right to put children in
public schools to help them get
along better.
Not everyone is accepted in
public school, which makes it
hard for children to get along
with each other, Bodiford said.
"Home schooling has had a pos
itive effect on my children because
we are fundamentalist Christians,
so in public schools my children
were outcast," she said.
Tate agreed that adequate so
cialization does not take place in
traditional schools.
Tate said he understands argu
ments against home schooling,
such as many parents believing if
a traditional school education was
good enough for them, it is good
enough for their children.
"Let's face it though, it is not the
same school environment," he said.
Research
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He said research is a key mis
sion of the University and
synergy between it and education
must go hand-in-hand.
The roundtable discussion
consisted of seven areas of im
portance: priorities, research
and education, interdisciplinary
studies, patterns of institutional
support, community of scholars,
new relationships and novel in
sights.
After the issue is discussed at
the group's Aug. 27 meeting,
members will prepare a report that
will be sent to some of the highest
national science authorities.
"The report will go to anim
portant audience on the institu
tional and national level," IMch
said.
The forum was sponsored h
the National Science Board and
Government-University-Industry
Research Roundtable. Four other
universities participated includ
ing Stanford, Yale, Case Western
Reserve and the University o(
Wisconsin-Mad ison.
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