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Collegiate EMS Providers Gather to Learn, Collaborate, Network, and Compete

Baltimore, MD - The nineteenth annual conference of the National Collegiate Emergency Medical Services Foundation (NCEMSF) was held February 24- 26 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel. A total of 959 representatives of campus-based EMS organizations from 99 colleges and universities across the U.S. and Canada attended the conference, setting new records for both.

NCEMSF is a non-profit organization committed to scholarship, research and consultancy activities and to creating safer, healthier environments on college and university campuses throughout North America. Comprised of over 250 college campus-based emergency medical service (EMS) agencies trained to respond within minutes and provide care tailored specifically to campus emergencies, NCEMSF's purpose is to support, promote, and advocate for EMS on college and university campuses. The annual conference is the cornerstone of the Foundation and creates a forum for communication and an environment where ideas can be exchanged and problems solved.

"Beyond providing for the acquisition of medical knowledge, campus-based EMS allows student participants to develop certain life skills including leadership, team work, communication, and decision making, while simultaneously positively impacting other people's lives," said Dr. George Koenig, NCEMSF President. He continued, "These crucial skills serve participants well no matter what careers they ultimately choose."

"Perhaps what is most impressive about campus-based EMS is that it is students helping fellow students - the vast majority of organizations are led by students attending those colleges or universities. The enthusiasm, optimism, and dedication that exists amongst this talented group of young, professional adults is contagious and truly awe inspiring," commented Dr. Koenig.

This year's conference program included over 110 lectures, roundtable discussions, expert panels and skills labs packed into two and half days of amazing programming ranging from the treatment and management of various traumatic and medical emergencies to EMS research to leadership development and strategic planning for the collegiate EMS agency. A series of roundtable discussions took place in which leaders and advisors from various university squads reviewed common problems facing their squads and challenged themselves to find innovative, feasible solutions. The conference also featured several skills labs focusing on airway management, advanced ECG interpretation, improvisational splinting and transport of patients and simulated assessment scenarios.

Dr. Darren McAuley delivered the Major John P. Pryor, MD Memorial Lecture "Moonlighting in the Big Leauges" and shared his own inspirational experiences as a pre-hospital provider in college and relayed how the lessons he learned helped shape his career and propel him to where he is today.

The Richard W. Vomacka Student Speaker Competition afforded pre-selected conference attendees the opportunity to deliver a relevant high-quality  seminar to their peers on a topic of their choosing. The competition was judged on the initial abstract submission, session slides and lastly presentation style, content, applicability and ability to relate and interact with the audience. Sean McMullen from Arizona State University, won the competition with a seminar entitled "Crawl, Walk, Run: Adapting Military Training Techniques to Civilian Environments." The original student research competition was won by Bartholomew Grabman of Willamette University for his work analyzing factors affecting EMS response times.

Several individuals and campus EMS organizations were recognized at the conference with annual awards for service.
* Collegiate EMS Week Award - University of Dayton
* Collegiate EMS Video of the Year - Emory University
* Collegiate EMS Web Site of the Year - Syracuse University
* George J. Koenig Jr. Foundation Service Award - Jennifer D. Siegel
* Collegiate EMS Advisor of the Year - Paul Smyth (Syracuse University)
* Collegiate EMS Provider of the Year - Kush Das (George Washington University)
* Collegiate EMS Organization of the Year - Binghamton University

Emory University and Rice University were recognized for having completed NCEMSF's Striving for Excellence program, a rigorous self-evaluation and three year accreditation process demonstrating adherence to current best practice patterns. The recipients represent benchmark organizations that others strive to emulate.

Fifteen universities also received special recognition in honor of their milestone anniversaries ranging from 10 years of service to 50 years of service to their respective campuses.

The annual Physio-Control Collegiate EMS skills competition in which team's clinical, leadership and creativity skills were tested was won by Cornell University. Virginia Tech Rescue Squad won the advanced life support version of the competition and the privilege of representing the whole of campus-based EMS in the annual JEMS Games at EMS Today in Baltimore later this week.

For more information about NCEMSF or the 2012 Conference, including a copy of the complete program, please visit the Foundation´s website at www.ncemsf.org. The 2013 NCEMSF conference is scheduled for February 22-24, 2013 in Washington, DC.

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Here are some recently asked questions about annual NCEMSF conferences that might be helpful to others:

Q: Our school is going to pay for our conference registration. How can we register as a group and pay together?

A: While starting this year each conference attendee must individually register for the conference, it is still possible to pay as a group. You have two choices:

1. At the end of the conference registration process, each attendee can indicate that they are mailing payment. Then you can total everybody's individual registration fees and send us a single check or a purchase order for the total amount. Please make certain to indicate the names and registration numbers of each attendee on the check or purchase order so that the payment may be appropriately credited. Keep in mind there is a 14-day window between when a person registers and when they will be automatically cancelled if we have not received payment.

2. Log in to the Web site as your group's NCEMSF institutional user and purchase registration tokens (via credit card, check, money order, or purchase order). This allows an organization to pre-pay for a set number of attendees without specifying who will be attending. Once we receive payment for the tokens, you will be supplied with a limited-use token code that you'll give to each of your attendees to use when registering. As they register for the conference, they will enter that code, which will debit your account and set their individual balance to $0.

Please refer to the Fees and Policies page as well as the online registration utility for further details.

Q: Does every member of our organization who is wishing to attend have to become an NCEMSF personal member prior to registering for the conference?

A: Every member of your organization who wishes to attend the conference must register on the NCEMSF Web site prior to registering for the conference. Whether they pay personal membership dues as part of their NCEMSF Web site registration is up to the individual. Depending on the time of conference registration, there may be a conference pricing differential for members vs. non-members. All conference attendees will become NCEMSF members for the remainder of the academic year as a result of conference attendance. See the Membership section of the Web site for further details.

Q: Must you be a certified (or licensed) EMS provider to attend the NCEMSF conference?

A: No. We welcome anybody with a relationship to collegiate EMS.  You do not have to be a first responder, EMT, or paramedic to attend, though much of our educational content is geared towards EMS providers.  We do offer administrative content that would be suited for collegiate EMS groupies without a strong EMS background.

Q: Can I earn continuing education credits (con-ed, CME, etc.) by attending the NCEMSF conference?

A: Yes, provided you request to receive CME upon check-in and turn in the conference evaluation form located in your conference folder at the end of the conference. Following the conference (please allow 2-4 weeks), you will be able to download your personalized conference CME report from the NCEMSF Web site verifying the sessions you attended. That report may then be printed, signed, and submited along with any other necessary identifiers (address, certification number, date of birth, etc.) to your state's EMS regulatory agency for credit by endorsement. Some states may require a copy of the conference program or other information as well. Because the membership of NCEMSF comes from across North America, it is exceedingly difficult and cost prohibitive to set up a system where credit can be directly transmitted to the states and automatically issued for attending a lecture; however, we provide assistance in obtaining credit by certifying attendance and providing supporting documentation that most EMS regulatory agencies accept.

Q: One delegate from our group can't make it. Can we swap out a different person in their place?

A: Yes. If they don't already have an account from attending a previous NCEMSF conference or being a personal member of NCEMSF, please have the second person register for an account on the NCEMSF Web site. After registering for an account, the person should register for the Annual Conference.  When prompted for payment type, they should select "Mail in Payment" or something similar.  Once the person is registered for the conference, please send an e-mail to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. asking for the swap.  Please provide the names of both the person who won't be attending and the person who will be attending instead.  It would make the attendee's check-in experience much more enjoyable if the swap is performed PRIOR to arriving at the conference.

Q: I didn't pay within the 14-day window and I received an e-mail telling me I was cancelled. What do I do now?

A: If you still intend to attend the conference, e-mail This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and request that your registration be cleared out. The system won't let you register for the conference twice. Once we've cleared out your old conference registration, you can re-register at the prevailing rate.