Host: Sam Willis
Guest: Attiqur Rehman

About this episode:
Ambulance personnel routinely work alongside other emergency services, and while this relationship is deemed essential to providing safe clinical care, the value and processes for achieving an effective cross-disciplinary role can sometimes be an afterthought.  In this student podcast, we shine a light on this important topic and provide an autoethnographic self-reflection from a student paramedic perspective on challenges, frustrations and the future, and we propose a framework to help practitioners prepare for such a situation.

About Sam:
Sam is the Discipline Lead for paramedicine at Curtin University and has a passion for all things paramedic education.  He worked as a paramedic and lecturer in London and Oxford, in the United Kingdom, prior to coming to Australia to further his career in paramedic education.  His current doctoral studies explore the use of virtual reality communities of practice for supporting student paramedics as they undertake Work Integrated Learning (WIL). 

About Attiqur:
Attiqur is a final year student paramedic at Curtin University in Western Australia. Prior to this, he was a first responder in multiple jurisdictions for 15 years through his roles as a police officer in both the United Kingdom and Australia, along with working in a mental health triage team.