Stay ConnectedCreated in 2016, Medic Mindset is hosted by EMS Educator, Ginger Locke. She is an Associate Professor of EMS Professions at Austin Community College in Austin, Texas.
The podcast started as a resource for Ginger Locke’s paramedic students as they transitioned to the field. With 10-20K listens per episode, the show has surpassed the original target audience.
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Ginger Locke and Dr. Jason Pickett hunkered down in a recording closet and pretended the world didn't exist for an hour with one mission: data-mining Dr. Pickett's brain for his thoughts on syncope. Thanks to Michael Herbert for the custom art for the episode. Show notes at medicmindset.com
This is a special edition of Medic Mindset where Ginger Locke gave her #1 tip for finding happiness and meaning in the profession to graduates of City College of San Francisco.
Shock the System (an EMS World Collaboration) by Ginger Locke
The Thinking Series is where Ginger Locke talks with some of the sharpest minds in Emergency Medicine about how they think through chief complaints. In this episode, one of the country’s few flight doctors, Dr. Cynthia Griffin, shares how she sorts through patients with the chief complaint of agitation. She works both in-hospital and out-of-hospital, so her perspective is truly unique. What you will quickly hear is that she is relatable, smart, and happy to share what she knows with medics because she was one for many years before becoming an Emergency Medicine doctor. She makes a point to describe how she actually leans into the patients who are the most salty because she knows, like all of us, we can be biased when confronted with the agitated patient.
Ginger Locke discusses the importance of good questions and deep listening. She weaves in recommendations from her own research and from Editor-in-Chief of EMS1.com, Greg Friese.
The Deputy Medical Director for Austin Travis County EMS, Dr. Jason Pickett, and I sat down and recorded a joint podcast about clinical teaching. His podcast is called the Austin Travis County Office of the Medical Director Official Podcast and he released a longer version of this episode. I've really enjoyed getting to know Dr. Pickett because he teaches me something every time we get together. In this next hour, you will hear my delight as he teaches me things about teaching! This episode is about teaching, but you can't talk about teaching without talking about learning. Whether you are a clinical preceptor, a classroom teacher or a paramedic student, I think there is something here for ya.
This guest remembers exactly where she was on September 11th, 2001. She was 10 years old at the time. In this microsode, she reflects on what that day was like for her as a child and what 9/11 means to her now as she works the streets of NYC as an EMT. In classic Medic Mindset fashion, Ginger doesn't let us off easy. She invites us to not only think about our own story of what that day was like for us as individuals, but to also think about our EMS family as a whole as we continue to see deaths from 9/11 related illnesses. Shownotes on medicmindset.com
In "The Thinking Series," Ginger talks with the sharpest minds in emergency medicine about how they think. This time she delves into how an EMS Medical director asks her medics to bend their brains around the topic of tachycardia. Her name is Dr. Katherine Remick and she is triple board certified in Emergency Medicine, EMS and Pediatrics. She is a professor at The University of Texas’ Dell Medical School in Austin but Ginger met up with her at an EMS Station in Hays County Texas where Dr. Remick is the medical director. This is the first episode of Medic Mindset recorded at a station so you are invited to enjoy this episode with occasional sounds of the station in the background. Show notes at medicmindset.com Twitter: @medicmindset
The guest thinks he has sorted out how to become what has been affectionately called a "Lifer." They are the rare breed of medics who have managed to make a career of this bizarre job. He is 4 years in and he seems to have pieced together a good chance at becoming a career-medic. Show notes at medicmindset.com
We pull back the curtain a bit on a well known educator, podcaster, and flight medic, Eric Bauer. He is the founder and CEO of a critical care education company, FlightBridgeEd. We discuss critical care topics like acid-base balance, intubation, ventilators and EKGs. We also discuss leadership topics like mentoring. I even get some marriage advice out of him. Listen in as I pick the brain of the man you want to know if you have any interest in becoming a flight medic or a better ground medic. Show notes at medicmindset.com
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