12-hour Courses

101 – The Business of Training – NEW
102 – Clinical Simulation: Foundations and Skills – NEW
103 – Incident Command for Highrise Operations
104 – Introduction to Emergency Management for Fire Service – CANCELLED
105 – Managing in a Changing Environment
106 – Shaping the Future

101 – The Business of Training — NEW

Randy Novak, Bureau Chief, Iowa Fire Service Training Bureau, Ames, IA

Gary Wilson, Training Chief Overland Park Fire Department, Overland Park, KS

As a support function of fire department operations, training many times is put on autopilot and managed by individuals who have little or no experience in training management. This is not the fault of the individual but rather an organizational philosophy that has carried on for generations. This course features instructors who have over 50 years of progressive training program management experience at the state and local level. Participants at the conclusion will have a better understanding of what is meant by the “business of training”. Successful emergency scene operations begin with a successful training program.

Throughout this 12-hour course topics will include but are not limited to:

Understanding your role as the training officer
An educational background for developing a sound training program
How to develop your in-house instructors
Considerations for choosing / developing curriculum
The four phases of evaluation
The impact of technology in today’s training
Providing realistic training evolutions

Anyone associated with managing their department’s training program should attend this course. This course is also applicable to managers of EMS training programs. (DFS CEUs 12-Instructor)

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102 – Clinical Simulation: Foundations and Skills — NEW

Dena Higbee, Director, Shelden Clinical Simulation Center

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Faith Phillips, Manager, Standardized Patients/High-Fidelity Simulation, Shelden Clinical Simulation Center

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Marty Runyan, Outreach Education Coordinator, Shelden Clinical Simulation Center

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John McCoy BSEMT-P, Director Emergency Medical Services Education Institute, University of Missouri Health Care

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This course is designed to give an overall survey of clinical simulation and its role in medical education. Didactic presentations will cover topics such as modes of simulation, debriefing techniques, reflective learning, group dynamics, and team formation. Practical skill stations will include utilizing various task trainers to learn/reinforce commonly performed pre-hospital skills. The class will be divided into small teams, and will rotate through various scenarios, using hi-fidelity simulators. Commonly occurring emergencies will be presented, including emergency childbirth and related complications, medical emergencies, and various trauma scenarios. Each team will learn how to assign roles, then diagnose and treat the patient appropriately based on information provided. (EMS CEUs- Core 12)

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103 – Incident Command for Highrise Operations — NFA Class

Steve Holtmeier, Captain, Jefferson City FD

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This course is designed to assist emergency response officers who are responsible for managing high-rise incidents. This includes organizing resources, developing strategies, and managing tactical operations to protect life and to minimize damage during an incident. Participants attending should have a working knowledge of basic Incident Command System organization; working knowledge of strategy and tactics for structural firefighting; knowledge of building construction; and understanding of the type of building systems existing in highrise buildings.

ACE Credit Recommendation:

In the vocational certificate or lower division baccalaureate/ associate degree category, 1 semester hour in Fire Science, Fire Administration, Public Administration, Emergency Medical Services Administration, or Emergency Management.

This course can be used as credit towards the MU FRTI Fire Officer Certificate Program.

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104 – Introduction to Emergency Management for Fire Service — NFA Endorsed – CANCELLED

Conne Burnham, Exercise/Evaluation Specialist, MU FRTI

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This course is designed to identify basic definitions, concepts, and systems utilized within the emergency management discipline. It includes identification of hazards, risks, and activities found within the four phases of emergency management. It also addresses federal, state, and local roles and responsibilities in a major disaster, with an emphasis on government coordination and solutions to complicated problems that frequently arise in disasters. This twelve hour course is designed for firefighters, local jurisdiction officials, emergency managers, volunteers and other emergency service personnel.

This course can be used as credit towards the MU FRTI Fire Officer Certificate Program.

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105 – Managing in a Changing Environment — NFA Class

David A. Hall, Chief, Springfield FD

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This course will focus on the four major areas that have an impact on the future of the fire service. Economic, social, political, and technological influences on the world, nation, and community in which the fire service operates will be identified and their impacts on the fire service will be discussed. Participants will identify the specific impacts, both for them personally and for their own organization. Finally, participants will discuss and then practice strategies for managing the changes brought about by those influences.

ACE Credit Recommendation:

In the lower division baccalaureate/associate degree category, 1 semester hour in Fire Science, Economics, Sociology, Management or Business.

This course can be used as credit towards the MU FRTI Fire Officer Certificate Program.

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106 – Shaping the Future — NFA Class

Jon Trent, Chief, Nixa FPD, 2011 MU FRTI Instructor of The Year

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This course will focus on the skills and techniques that a mid-level manger needs to provide leadership and direction for his or her fire department. Participants will identify opportunities, including methods to frame problems accurately and solve problems as groups, rather than continually using the traditional fire service groups. Topics also include brain writing and whole brain thinking problem solving strategies, and a discussion of benchmarks and the need to involve resources outside the fire department and government. Finally we will discuss the need to quantify, justify, and communicate decisions in order to implement them effectively.

ACE Credit Recommendation:

In the lower division baccalaureate/associate degree category, 1 semester hour in Management Science.

This course can be used as credit towards the MU FRTI Fire Officer Certificate Program.

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