2023 Call for Abstracts
Submissions are now open for 2023 abstracts. Abstracts are due June 30, 2023. Call for Abstracts
Upcoming Journal Club Webinars and Podcasts!

Next Journal Club Research Webinar - March 24, 2023
Virtually No Difference? Does a Virtual Reality Trainer Impact Skill Retention?
The variety and use of virtual reality teaching tools is increasing. This study compares learning retention of tourniquet application of EMTs who used virtual reality as a refresher learning strategy compared with a control group.
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PCRF Journal Club:
Clinical Research
Second Monday, noon CST
Next date: April 10, 2023
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Education Research
Fourth Friday, noon CST
Next date: March 24, 2023
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Call for Abstracts!
Each year the Call for Abstracts highlights the Prehospital Care Research Forum at UCLA activities. Abstracts are received from EMS providers, clinicians, educators, administrators, and students from all over the nation and abroad. A peer-review process determines which authors are invited to present their study at a national conference.
Authors frame their studies in the literature, which provides dynamic, interesting and provocative presentations. Education, Clinical & Systems abstracts due June 30, 2023.
2022 Abstracts Published in New Article
The Prehospital Care Research Forum at UCLA is pleased to present 42 abstracts from the International Scientific EMS Symposium held in October 2022 during the EMS World EXPO conference in Orlando. All submissions were reviewed and scored in a blinded fashion by subject matter experts in prehospital care, education, and research.
We wish to thank: Prehospital Emergency Care, EMS World, the National Association of EMTs, Limmer Education, ESO Solutions, FirstWatch, Jones AND Bartlett Learning, Fisdap, and the RedFlash Group.
2021 abstracts published
All 42 (yes, forty-two!) PCRF abstracts are now published and available at EMS World.

Did you miss it?
International Research Conference 2021: Global Developments in EMS Research
November 30, 2021 & December 1, 2021
Panels and invited speakers presented and discussed more than 40 original research projects spanning topics of worldwide interest including current diseases, ethics, technology, and cultural competence in paramedicine.

Did you miss it?
International Scientific Symposium 2020 - Virtual
November 20, 2020
On November 20, 2020, we took the International Scientific Symposium virtual for the year, with a day dedicated to the current state of EMS research, and the best research submitted to the Prehospital Care Research Forum this year.