28th Annual Mid-Coast EMS Seminar

I hope to see you at our family gathering

The Mid-Coast EMS Council, Inc. will be hosting its 28th Annual Seminar at The Samoset this November. All of us associated with the Seminar look forward to serving your educational needs and strive to provide you with an educational yet fun filled weekend that promises to be a great experience.

When I take time to look back at how we got to this 28th year, I can’t help but think of the history that has taken place at The Samoset Resort. For it’s all the people that have walked the halls, taken or taught classes, shown off the latest and greatest EMS gear or been there to help run the show that have made this Seminar the biggest and best in New England for the past 27 Novembers.

It has been a true honor to be a part of this Seminar for the past 23 years as a student, 14 years as faculty and Council Member, and the past 8 years as the Seminar Coordinator. The experiences that I have shared with many of you have been great, the networking and opportunity to meet so many people that have shaped the EMS system at a local, state, national, and international level has been invaluable. I know that many of you have also taken the opportunities that this Seminar has offered over the years and made the best of it. I hope that you will continue to make the best of the experiences that present themselves and share them with others, for that is what will move us all forward in this pre-hospital world.

As the pre-hospital world continues to develop with the inclusion of Emergency Medical Dispatch, we have seen a great change in accessing the system, and this brings another group of public safety professionals to our midst at the Samoset in November. We welcome these first – first responders to join our fire-rescue, ER staff, and EMS folks to broaden our family. The Mid-Coast EMS Seminar has been an event that emphasizes education, networking, brotherhood, and as our DJ, “Jammin” Jamie Bohannon always plays the song, “We Are Family”.

This year’s Seminar will give you some of the old favorites and some new ideas in education; there will be something for everyone. New this year is the inaugural competition known as the “Mid-Coast EMS Games at the Samoset”, modeled after the JEMS Games in Baltimore. We strive to provide you with education, networking, entertainment and relaxation, not to mention some of the most scenic views of the coast of Maine, from the great Samoset Resort.

If you are new to EMS or have been around for a while and never joined us, I ask you to give us a try. If it has been a while since you were at the family gathering, come on back, we missed you. And for those of you who have been coming for years, I will see you there.

Steve Leach

Seminar Coordinator