Thank you for visiting my blog. My name is Rob Theriault (pronounced like Ontario without the “On”). I am a professor at Georgian College in Ontario, Canada where I coordinate and teach a 2 year Primary Care Paramedic Program and a 1 year post-diploma Advanced Care Paramedic program. I am also a published author and I stay current in my field working part-time as an Advanced Care Paramedic in southern Ontario. I have been in this profession since 1984 and I have been very fortunate to have lived through some of the most exciting changes in our field.
This is a young profession and one that is still searching for solid ground. Paramedicine is the step sister of emergency services and the foster child of health care. It is young and evolving rapidly. It is still developing it’s identity and trying to establish itself as a distinct and globally recognized profession, separate from the other emergency services, distinct as a health discipline and equally important and indespensible as any profession would hope to be.
I have had the great fortune to have learned from so many other paramedics and of having been inspired on many occasions, including one winter night many years ago that led me to this profession. My purpose in creating this blog is to share my experience as a paramedic and as an educator and to lend my voice to the choir of paramedics around the globe to champion our profession as it grows out of its adolescence.
