Talk:Emergency medical dispatcher

Assessment

Here are some ideas for expanding this article:

• It needs a clean statement of what the job is. How does it differ from non-medical dispatching (fire dispatch and police dispatch)? Don't most emergency dispatchers do all of these areas?
• What kinds of things does the EMD do, other than answer the phone? (For that matter, is it always a telephone?)
• How much does the job change from place to place? Is a rural area different from an urban one? Is an industrialized country different from a developing country? (Do developing countries even have this job?) It might help if it wasn't so United States-centric. User:Emrgmgmtca might be able to help you find information about other countries.
• Is a license or special training actually required (in which legal jurisdictions?), or can you pick it up on the job?
• Are there special issues/skills/talents related to this job? I'd expect burnout to be a major factor, and of course you want someone to answer the phone 24x365, so there are scheduling issues. Speaking more than one language might be useful. Being able to calm down panicked people might be useful.
• What's the career path? A certified nurse assistant might eventually become an EMT or a nurse; is there a path up from EMD?

You might also look at Dispatcher for ideas.

In general, I think that your best defense against an AfD is to add reliable sources directly about the job itself. You might look at the Bureau of Labor Statistics for US information. If there's an industry-specific magazine, then that might be useful. There's a small chance that WP:WikiProject Business could suggest some resources for the career aspect. WhatamIdoing (talk) 18:03, 9 October 2008 (UTC) (who is not watching this page)

Update: This article has been expanded so significantly that it's hardly recognizable. Great work! Two small stylistic points: Like section headings, captions should be in sentence case, not title case. Also, the Manual of Style dislikes references in headings, so the usual approach is to put a reference that applies to most/all of a section in one of three places: end of the first sentence, end of the first paragraph, or end of the entire section. (Some people choose first sentence or end of paragraph, but then repeat it for every paragraph in a long section.) There are no ideal solutions to this, so pick whichever you like best and use it. WhatamIdoing (talk) 17:47, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

Other companies/groups besides MPDS and NAEMD train and sell similar systems. Most notably Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCO). This discussion is one sided and is more like an advertisement. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.143.42.10 (talk) 22:45, 2 August 2009 (UTC)

World View Updating

It is time this article to move in the next stage. Creating a world view article and moving data of one nation to it's own article. Such as the history is strongly for US medical dispatching only.

I do know about some Asian medical dispatching and can help out.

If no one willing to help with this update? Then I might do this update in the near future. I will review the Assessment above to see if those questions are answered and cut out useless info. To move article to a world view topic.

Rasseru (talk) 07:32, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

US and Canada only?

Reading this article, I get the impression that it is a job found only in the USA and Canada. OTOH, we have pictures of "EMDs around the world" including Finland etc. Which is correct? Does the article need to be rewriten from a non-local perspective? --Jubilee♫clipman 00:03, 12 March 2010 (UTC)

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