Marc Colbeck
Marc Colbeck
I am currently a University Lecturer in Paramedicine at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia.
Previous Work
Experience:
From 2004 to 2011 I worked as a full time
Paramedic Instructor for the College of the North
Atlantic - Qatar - a Canadian college teaching the
Primary Care Paramedic program in the Middle
East. There I authored a complete revision of
the paramedic program which made it a joint
EMT-I/PCP program.
From 1990 to 2004, I was a Canadian Paramedic in the
city of Toronto
working for Toronto EMS.
I worked as an Emergency Medical Attendant (4 yrs),
Advanced
Care Paramedic (4 yrs) and a Critical
Care Paramedic (5 yrs). In addition to
working for the City of Toronto I have experience
working as a private industrial paramedic and as a
flight paramedic repatriating Canadians.
Prior to entering into EMS I worked as a
professional Scientific Demonstrator for the Ontario
Science Centre.
Previous Educator
Experience:
In addition to being a Field Training Officer
for Toronto EMS, I have taught for the
Sunnybrook Base Hospital Program Flight Academy and
both taught and did course development for the Michener Institute
in Toronto. For five years I was an ACLS
Instructor for the Sunnybrook
Hospital ACLS program and became their first
non-physician Course Director. I created the
first ACLS program for Humber College,
was its first Course Director, and I sat on the
Paramedic Program Advisory Board for Georgian
College, in Ontario, helping to create it's
PCP program. I am a certified 12 Lead ECG Instructor
and a PHTLS Instructor.
Previous
Professional Experience:
I was one of the founding Directors of the Ontario
Paramedic Association and sat as both the
Registrar and the Director of Research and
Education. For several years I sat on the Editorial
Advisory Board, and wrote a regular column for Canadian Emergency
News, our national EMS magazine. I also run paramedicine.com,
a website that provides free educational content for
working paramedics.
Academic
Credentials:
I have completed a Teaching and Training Adult
Certificate from Georgian
College and have completed a Bachelor of
Health Sciences degree in Pre-Hospital Care from Charles Sturt
University. In September of 2008 I began the
Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology Program at Yorkville
University and am in the process of completing
my final thesis.
Contact me through marc.colbeck@flinders.edu.au
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