Rommie Duckworth

This is the educator session where you take the wheel. In 60 minutes, you get 60 of the strongest, field-tested educator pearls based on the topics the audience picks in real time. These aren’t generic talking points; they’re pro tips, practical tools, and repeatable strategies I’ve refined through decades of lesson design, textbook and test-bank authoring, and EMS education program development, as seen in the "Duckworth on Education" column in EMS World Magazine. We’ll topple test anxiety, dissect the mechanics of an effective lesson, harden psychomotor performance, calm skills testing nerves, boost learner retention, and spotlight engagement patterns that make students lean in, not tune out. The result? A massive toolbox of tips you can teach, use, and pass on to students, colleagues, and fellow educators starting your very next shift.

This session reframes sepsis as the frontline EMS emergency it truly is, by distinguishing patients who are sick, septic, or in life-threatening septic shock. More deadly each year than prostate cancer, breast cancer, and HIV/AIDS combined, sepsis arrives at the ED by EMS over 60% of the time and is still frequently overlooked in both the hospital and in the field. You’ll move beyond buzzwords into real clinical impact, learning clinical criteria that works for pre-hospital professionals. Using real case studies, rapid-fire physiology pearls, and proven workflows, you’ll sharpen your ability to detect sepsis early, stabilize organ perfusion, deploy treatments with purpose, and change outcomes with EMS care that saves lives. This is where recognition meets resuscitation—practical, clinical, and memorable.