MetroHealth Helps You Earn CEUs With Ease

FieldBrief Issue 1
Published March 24, 2026

MetroHealth Helps You Earn CEUs With Ease

Your commitment to our communities leaves little room for time-intensive professional development.

This is why MetroHealth is dedicated to providing impactful on-site and virtual educational opportunities to earn CEUs, often during your shifts.

“Every month, a multidisciplinary team consisting of EMS coordinators, EMS physicians, specialists, Metro Life Flight staff and more visits local stations to provide education,” says MetroHealth EMS Coordinator David Yarmesch, MBA, BS-OLM, LSSGB, AAS, EMSI, Paramedic.

This is in addition to training on topics such as hose relays, ladder work and confined-space rescues that happen in our region’s fire departments every day.

“That’s how we all stay strong, sharp and up to date,” Yarmesch says. “Many people think we just show up at the firehouse and magically help people. It’s not like that. Our education and training are nonstop. We work very hard.”

The work you’re doing right now—reading MetroHealth’s new quarterly newsletter—is an opportunity to earn CEUs.

“It’s exciting,” Yarmesch says. “Each newsletter will provide current, evidence-based trends and research in our field—little microbursts of continuing education.”

You can learn more about Issue 1’s CEU opportunities at metrohealth.org/fieldbrief.

“MetroHealth offers a lot of different virtual and in-person educational options that qualify for CE,” says Jeremiah Escajeda, MD, Medical Director of the Cleveland Department of Public Safety and MetroHealth Emergency Medicine Physician.

These include:

Trauma Tuesdays

Trauma Tuesdays are Zoom webinars that allow hundreds of people to earn CEUs on a specific topic. You should receive information about future sessions via email. To sign up, simply click on the registration link.

Next up: Thoracic trauma for EMS Week (May 18-24, 2026).

A collaboration between Metro Life Flight and ProMedica Air, the annual in-person Erie Shores EMS & Critical Care Symposium brings together fire and EMS professionals, nurses and critical care providers. The two-day event features educational opportunities, networking and unique breakout sessions where you can interact with simulations to try vendors’ products.

“For our annual symposium, we’re very cognizant of issuing CE with topics and hours first responders need,” Yarmesch says.

This year’s symposium was March 12-13 in Sandusky. Attendees typically earn six to eight CEUs per day. Keep it in mind for next year!

Metro Life Flight offers landing zone training, eligible for EMS CE credit, to help first responders learn how to safely set up an LZ for an emergency helicopter scene response.

Request training.

Metro Life Flight also offers free CE lectures and case reviews and can develop topics specific to your crew’s educational needs.

Request a lecture.

“You can’t stay stale in this industry,” Yarmesch says. “You have to stay on top of everything—technology, equipment, medications, policies, procedures, protocols.”

First responders witness constant change—from an American Heart Association update to improvements in stroke assessments to new information about Medicaid. Professional development is key.

To claim EMS Continuing Education for this edition of FieldBrief, please visit metrohealth.org/fieldbrief and complete a brief survey. The survey link is located below the list of articles.

MetroHealth Medical Center is a State of Ohio Approved Continuing Education Site #1202