Education Through Simulation

Current and effective education is a linchpin to success in the EMS community.

Gaumard Scientific Company provides essential tools for just that.

Headquartered in Miami, Gaumard produces multiple lines of simulators used in 70 countries to train healthcare professionals, including EMS personnel.

Gaumard has designed, manufactured and produced these simulators for more than 60 years.

Dave Tauber, paramedic program director at Yale-New Haven Hospital, has been using Gaumard simulators in training for a little under a year, and has seen largely positive results since implementing them.

“We’ve been very pleased with the simulators. My faculty members have taken to them quite well,” Tauber says.

Yale-New Haven uses a variety of Gaumard products, including the Victoria simulator, Trauma Hal, and an array of newborn and child simulators.

Tauber says one of the biggest benefits has been the ease of implementing them into his organization, noting that a number of faculty members took a liking to them almost immediately.

Although they are using them primarily for education now, Tauber says his organization has plans to expand their use in the future. He says they will be great for reviewing how troublesome cases could have been handled better and for skills verification for active paramedics as well.

Tauber says the positive impact on his education programs has been obvious and immediate.

“The students love them, and they like the hands-on aspect,” Tauber says. “We get some disbelief from them because it’s so similar to the real thing, and they like that a lot.”

He says he would absolutely recommend Gaumard’s simulators to any educators looking for realism in training.

“It’s a much better way to teach,” Tauber says, “compared to having students be  passive and letting slides wash over them or ignoring a droning-on instructor.”

For more information, visit Gaumard.com.