What This Course Covers

Pilots with 20,000 hours still run the checklist. Not because they’ve forgotten how to fly — because they know memory degrades exactly when the stakes go up. This course brings aviation-style checklist discipline to EMS, where the same physiology applies and the same errors keep happening.

Module 1: Why Checklists Work — The evidence from aviation and medicine, and why “I don’t need a list” is precisely what a loaded brain would say.

Module 2: Building Checklists That Stick — The difference between a checklist crews actually use and a laminated card that dies in a cabinet: length, wording, trigger points, and format.

Module 3: The Three Phases — Ready-to-use templates for pre-arrival, on-scene, and transport — the natural pause points where a 15-second check catches the error before it rides to the hospital.

Module 4: Making It Cultural — Getting a real crew to adopt checklists without eye-rolls: challenge-response technique, partner buy-in, and adapting templates to your service.

Includes downloadable checklist templates you can adapt to your own protocols.