CPHEMS

NEWS RELEASE January 16, 2016

 

Administrative Officer - Mr. Rupert Fletcher - 758-485-3851

Coomunications Liaison  - Mr. Randy Posvar - 758-461-2027

Center for EMS Education

cemsedu@aemstec.8m.com

Rodney Bay

Saint Lucia, West Indies

Center for EMS Education

 

News Release

 

Saint Lucia EMT Students Receive International Accredited Certification The Joint Governance and Program Management Committee wishes to inform the public that Emergency Medical Technician students who were recipients of the International Accredited Certification of Course Attendance and Completion from the Pasco Hernando State College in affiliation with the Center for EMS Education received their Certificates onSaturday January 16, 2016 at a special certificate presentation ceremony by representatives of the Pasco Hernando State College which is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs.

 

                                                                                                                                       The college has an established Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) and                                                                                                                                        Technical Assistance Agreement (TAA) with the Center for EMS Education                                                                                                                                          here in Saint Lucia. 

 

                                                                                                                                       The Memorandum of Understanding was established under the                                                                                                                                                          “Consortium Sponsorship” Standard Guidelines of the Commission on                                                                                                                                                 Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs (CAAHEP) Which is the                                                                                                                                           United States only approved and Authorized Accreditation body for                                                                                                                                                       EMS/EMT Programs and EMS Education Offering Colleges and niversities.

 

                                                                                                                                       The certification presentation was held at he Tapion Hospital Conference                                                                                                                                            Center and presided over and presented to Students by Professor Dr. David                                                                                                                                          Sullivan Head of the EMS Department and Assistant Mr. Scott Scurlock                                                                                                                                                Director for EMS Programs of Pasco Hernando State College.                                                                                                                                                                  

                                                                                                                                       The recipients of the certification had been awaiting the certification for                                                                                                                                            the past year and a half as a result of the Pasco Hernando State Colleges                                                                                                                                            transition from a Community College to a State College and the pending                                                                                                                                            completion of outstanding on complete course work by some of the                                                                                                                                                    certification recipients.

 

The representatives of Pasco Hernando State College arrived on island on Friday January 15, 2016 in preparation for theCertification process and to facilitate a press briefing on the delay in certificate Issuance to students of the EMS Program Founded by Mr. Craig Herman Internationally Certified EMS Educator Trained and Registered the American National Association of EMS Educators (NAEMSE).

 

Mr. Herman is a registered and qualified Emergency Medical Services Educator of the American National and also a Qualified and registered Levels A and B EMS Educator certified by the State of Florida, under its 64J Administrative Code for coordinating and lecturing EMS Training Programs.  He also held the Deputy Chairman position on the International Committee of the American Association of EMS Educator from 2012 – 2013, the first time a Caribbean National was selected to sit on such a committee which represents a global membership of over 113 countries, with a mission to introduce international standards for EMS Education Globally.

 

Mr. Herman was also responsible for a number of other person locally Pursuing and successfully completing the Florida State EMS Educators Course Levels A and B course and receiving Florida State Certification, they are Mrs. Cathleen Polius “A”, Mr. Charlton Andrew “A”, Ms. Temsey George “A”, Ms. Zephania Frederick “A”, Dr. Dare Ogunlusie Levels “A & B”.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Graduate and Fire fighter Charlton Andrew who

accepted his Certificate at the certificate

presentation event. He is also a Certified Advanced

Medical Life Support Combine Provider Certified by

the American National Association of Emergency

Medical Technicians (NAEMT), A certified

Advanced Cardiac Life Support Provider of 

American Heart Association (AHA) and a Level “A”

EMS Educator Certified by the State of Florida

under its 64J Administrative Code for Coordinating

and lecturing EMS Training Programs.

 

He was also one of the First Saint Lucian Trained

Emergency Medical Technician under this program

to have pursued his clinical internship in the United

States through Broward College under the

Coordination of Mr. Richard Beck seen in the photo

with is colleague and travel class mate Mr. Travis

Gifford who is also a recipient of the international

EMT Certification and now in Fire Fighter by profession.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                                                                                     

                                                                                                                      Stephen Eugene Fire Fighter by profession accepted his course completion certificate                                                                                                                       from the College Representative along with other accredited certification recipients.

                                                                                 

                                                                                                                      In 2014 he was the recipient of a Level “A” EMS Educator Certificate from the EMS                                                                                                                             Educator Program Coordinator based in Florida through the EMT Program Founder                                                                                                                           here in Saint Lucia under a “Grand Father Clause in EMS Education”, having been                                                                                                                             actively involved in assisting in teaching the psychomotor Skills Aspect of EMS                                                                                                                                 Education under EMS ducation learning Domain but is still required to complete                                                                                                                               course work.

 

                                                                                                                      This momentous occasion was faciliated by the Memorrhandum Of                                                                                                                                                   Understanding (MOU) and Technical Assistance Agreement (TAA) which he alleged                                                                                                                           did not exist along with other misleading accusations during a 2015 Radio Caribbean                                                                                                                       International's (RCI) News Spin radio call-in Program, despite having all the facts.

 

                                                                                                                     This occasion exemplifies that our ignorance as human beings is not erased by our                                                                                                                              accomplishments but our understanding of the processes of that accomplishment,                                                                                                                              which demits our ignorance of the subject matter.

 

 

The Memorandum of Understanding which allows for the evaluating, monitoring and certifying of EMT Students in keeping With the International Standards of the United States National Registry for Emergency Medical Technicians (NREMT), was Transitioned to Pasco Hernando State College formerly Pasco Hernando Community College by Mr. Richard Beck former Associate Dean of Broward College prior to the completion of the MOU when he unexpectedly had to depart the college due Family matters.

 

The transition to Pasco Hernando State College was facilitated due the foreseen delay in a replacement for the Associate Dean which may have affected the timely completion of the MOU and not wanting to allow a further lengthy delay in establishing the MOU which Mr. Herman as an Internationally registered EMS Educator and the College representatives had commenced 2012.

 

The MOU with Pasco Hernando was formerly signed by the District Board of Trustees of the Pasco Hernando Community College and the Chair and representatives of the BOT and Program Management Committee of the Center for EMS Education in May of 2013.

 

The Joint Governance Program Management Committee of the EMS

Program of the Center for EMS Education would like to formerly

congratulate the 18 graduate EMT Students and would especially like

to recognize graduate student Bryson Hilaire who is the recipient of

the most outstanding student award having been allowed to attempt

the final written certification examination as a pretest, halfway

through the course and topped the written examination, he is now

Perusing studies in Medicine in Venezuela through and International

Scholarship Program. His mother proudly accepted his certificate on

his behalf.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The other Internationally Accredited Certification Emergency Medical Technician/graduate Students are as Follows:

 

• Cathleen Polius

• Johnson Philip

• Nesa Hippolyte

• Ingrid Mitchell

• Gilbertha Herman

• Rebertha Willfred ( Initial and Recertification)

• Malachi O’Brian (Studying Medicine in Venezuela)

• Ketura St. Louis

• Tedella Joseph

• Emery McFarlane

• Anya Williams

• Gaby St. Rose

• Travis Gifford

• Peterson Felix

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The JGPMC would like to publicly recognize and congratulate the following graduate students who could not attend the certification ceremony and worthy of note their having been awarded Foreign scholarships and currently pursuing medicine in Venezuela, Cuba and Trinidad Respectively and those who have completed the EMT program successfully and have moved to the United States:

 

• Anya Williams

• Bryson Hilaire

• Malachi Obrian

• Kendal Khodra

 

The JGPMC would also like to recognize formerly and publically the following past students who have made the committee and program proud in successfully completing advance studies in nursing and other areas of expertise both in Saint Lucia and the United States.

 

• Mr. Anthony Levi Peterkin        – Asc. Paramedic Science Laguardia Community College, New York, USA

• Ms. Kinga Joseph        – Nursing (Saint Lucia)

• Ms. Joanna Jn. Baptiste – Nursing and former EMT Program most outstanding Student 2011-2012

• Ms. Christine Alexander – Asc. Nursing, Florida

• Ms. Lisa Elibox – Bsc. Nursing Grambling University, United States

• Ms. Millie Edwards – Bsc. Nursing Grambling University, United States

• Ms. Charlie Prospere – Bsc. Biology, United States

• Marline Clovis – Currently in the United Kingdom

• Crystal George – Currently working and living in Florida

• Rebertha Wilfred - Currently pursuing nursing studies in Saint Lucia

• Joanna Jn. Baptiste – Bsc. Medicine

• Shauna Joseph – Currently living and working in Martinique

• Shahide Leon – Currently living and working in Martinique

• Kendal Cadette – Fire Fighter (Saint Lucia)

• Anissa Soloman – (EMT) Rain Forest Sky Rides Saint Lucia

 

The above past graduate students are some of the success stories of the EMS/EMT Program amongst others.

 

     

Sincerely,

 

                                              

     

Mr. Rupert Fletcher                                                                    Mr. Nicholas Ellis Edward

Administrative Officer                                                                Chair BOT - CEMSE