Paramedicine: Plan, Prepare, Learn with Scott King

World Extreme Medicine Faculty Member and Paramedic Scott King joins us this week on WEMcast.  Alongside WEM Trauma Lead and fellow Paramedic Eoin Walker, the pair discuss Scott's incredibly varied career history within healthcare, and which roles have granted him the ability to lead, shape and have a tangible impact on patient care in the long-term.  Scott also explores his role as an educator, considering how his role as a healthcare provider has prepared him for teaching, encouraging him to be dynamic, face the unknown and responding and adapting to the environment, rather than limiting it to your own comfort zone. They discuss how simulation can hugely impact the learning process, encouraging participants to engage  Scott also considers the lessons learnt from his emergency planning training, combined with his own experiences in recent years in Salisbury and during the 'Beast from the East' and how he's deploying lessons learnt in triaging calls, collating information, sharing knowledge and demand profiles to cope with the COVID caseload.  Scott and Eoin also discuss the unintended consequences of the pandemic, considering the quieter A&E departments and the long-term impact of those avoiding seeking support.    N.B - We apologise for the sound quality towards the end of the recording - Scott was recording this on-shift so faced a few internet issues.