User:Rachrosen/Fisdap

Fisdap is a privately held educational software company for EMS (Emergency Medical Services) training. Fisdap provides EMS educators with online tools to manage EMT and paramedic students' internships and prepares students for the NREMT exams.

[Category:Founding] Fisdap was conceived in 1996 by a group of educators at the first National Association of EMS Educators symposium in San Antonio, TX. Faculty at Inver Hills Community College collaborated with Century College, Northwest Technical College, and Youngstown State University to build a data set of competencies that track students' completion of skills online. Judging student competency based on experiential learning was a departure from an hours-based requirement.

In 1997, IHCC received a grant from the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities System (MnSCU). The title of this grant was the Field Internship Student Data Acquisition Project, which is how Fisdap got its name.

[Category:Research Studies] Fisdap is involved in promoting EMS educational research projects and providing interested researchers with access to the Fisdap dataset. Since 2005, Fisdap has hosted an annual Research Summit where EMS educators gather to conduct research. Many of the projects formed during the Research Summit are submitted to the Prehospital Care Research Forum, of which Fisdap is a contributing partner, and several projects have won awards. Permission to perform research has been approved by the IHCC Institutional Review Board (IRB).