I am a Canadian Paramedic with over 13 years of road experience in the city of Toronto.  I have 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.

My teaching experience in EMS is extensive. Prior to entering into EMS I worked as a professional Scientific Demonstrator for the Ontario Science Centre.  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 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.  I now work as a full time Paramedic Instructor for the College of the North Atlantic - Qatar, which is 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.  I currently work there as a full time instructor.

My professional development experience is well rounded.  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 column on Quality Management in EMS for Canadian Emergency News, our national EMS magazine.  I have additional experience as a Certified Quality Assessor for the Canadian National Quality Institute, and have done extensive Continuous Quality Improvement development work for Toronto EMS as a member of the Executive Quality Council, including sitting on the implementation committee for a new computer aided dispatch system, investigating ALS capture, and researching and writing their Mission, Vision and Value statements.  I also run paramedicine.com, a website that provides free educational content for working paramedics.

Academically, 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. 

Contact me through marc at marccolbeck dot com.

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