would be willing to do the lecture on Pediatric Cardiac Arrest!” If you’ve met Peter you know he’s one of the nicest people in the world, so of course, he agreed. So I thought to myself, “Hmmm, maybe Peter Antevy, M.D. How was I going to convert 30-hours of educational material into an online course? I think I’m a good instructor but I’m fairly certain few people in the world could endure 30 hours of listening to me talk! So, that solved one problem but it created another. Fortunately, the NREMT waived its limits on Distributive Education (DE) due to the pandemic. Obviously, with COVID we are doing our best to socially distance so it wasn’t clear how we were going to accomplish our EMT and Paramedic Refresher training for this recertification season. To recertify through the NCCP program our staff need a certain number of “national hours” which you can think of as “butt in seat hours” where students have an opportunity to directly interact with the instructor. To that end, we adopted the NREMT’s NCCP Program several years ago. Like many EMS Chiefs across the country, one of my primary responsibilities is keeping all of my EMTs and paramedics certified and licensed.
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