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In this episode, the host of Medic Mindset, Ginger Locke, speaks to the topic of feedback.

In this recording from University of Washington’s Grand Rounds, she explains that paramedics are not getting enough feedback.

She outlines theories for why it is so scarce, what we can do about it, and how feedback might look in the future.


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The Medic Mindset podcast is created and hosted by Ginger Locke, BA, NRP. As an associate professor of EMS Professions at Austin (TX) Community College, she has immersed herself in the art and science of how medics think and perform. In interviews with medics and subject-matter experts, she thoughtfully explores the inner-workings of the minds of medics. Prior to becoming a paramedic, she studied social psychology at the University of Georgia and the University of Leicester, UK. Her professional endeavors revolve around the conviction that the most important and complicated tool in EMS in the brain of the medic.