Clinical tracking and testing for EMS education.

Precept is software for EMS education programs: EMR, EMT, AEMT and paramedic. It handles clinical and field internship tracking, preceptor sign-off, clinical scheduling and testing in one place.

Yes. It covers the same core work: clinical hours, skills and patient contact tracking, preceptor evaluations and testing. A 25-student paramedic class costs about $1,200 a year on Precept. PraxisEMS charges $99 a student for each class, so the same 25 students cost $2,475 there. You can bring your records over for free: Fisdap and Platinum Planner exports, class lists, exam scores from EMSTesting or Fisdap, ePCR run reports and your question bank all import from files. If your current service exports something else, send it to me and I'll help bring it in.

Yes. Keep using what you have now and run Precept next to it, free, for a class or two. Just tell me you want to try it that way and I'll set your program up. If you like it better, your records come over with you. Tell me or email aaron@hedgeslabs.com.

Tell me and I'll set your program up on Precept free until that contract or class ends, so you don't pay twice. This matters to me, and I'm confident enough that you'll like it better that I put my name on it. Questions or concerns come straight to me, the developer who builds Precept, not a sales team: aaron@hedgeslabs.com.

Yes. Upload an Excel or CSV spreadsheet, a Blackboard question file or an Aiken file. Most test banks can export one of these. Precept takes multiple choice questions with four choices, and you can tag each one by NREMT area and level.

Yes. After a test, Precept shows how many students missed each question and flags the ones most of the class missed. An instructor can drop the question, give everyone credit for it, or accept a second answer. Every score, pass or fail, and readiness number is re-scored right away, students see the change on their results, and it can be undone. Instructors can also pick each question for a test themselves or let Precept draw them from the bank.

Students log each shift on their phone: hours, skills, medications, airways and patient contacts by age and complaint. Progress against every program minimum updates as they go.

Yes, without an app store. Open precept.squidskull.com on your phone and add it to your home screen: on an iPhone tap Share in Safari, then Add to Home Screen; on Android tap the menu in Chrome, then Add to Home screen or Install app. It gets its own icon, opens full screen and works just like an app.

The program sends the preceptor a link. The preceptor reviews the shift, rates the student and signs from their phone. A five-minute orientation is built in.

Yes. Programs can give their own exams, and students get study mode, timed practice tests, NREMT-style adaptive exams and a readiness score.

Yes. Programs can import a CastleBranch compliance report, download a gradebook file for Canvas, Blackboard or D2L, and connect their own systems through the Precept API with a per-program key. Students can subscribe to their shifts in Google, Apple or Outlook calendar, and exam scores and ePCR run reports import from files.

Where the data lives, how it's protected, FERPA, patient information, and how to export or delete it. It's all on one page written for them: Security and privacy. It also lists what Precept doesn't have yet, so there are no surprises. I'll fill in a college's questionnaire or sign its data privacy agreement on request.

Yes. It is built to meet CoAEMSP's tracking requirements: minimum competencies and their yearly approval, terminal competency signed by the medical director and program director, success rates, outcomes, advising records, and preceptor and instructor evaluations. It also keeps compliance documents and preceptor training records, and produces the reports CoAEMSP and state site visits ask for.

Email alerts are built and switching on shortly, then text messages. Sign-in with a college Google or Microsoft account, single sign-on and working inside Canvas, Blackboard or D2L are set up with each college's IT office. HECVAT, an accessibility report (VPAT), SOC 2 and a HIPAA business associate agreement are in progress for colleges that ask for them. If your program needs something else, tell me and I'll add it for free.

Yes. Most colleges do. Build your package on the Start page and download a quote for your business office. Once purchasing issues the PO, sign in, open your Account page and choose Pay by purchase order. I email the invoice with your PO number on it, net 30, payable by bank transfer or card. Need a W-9 or vendor forms filled in? Ask me and I'll send them.

Students never pay, and volunteer programs never pay. Programs with 15 students a year or fewer try it free for one year, then pay $300 a year. Up to 60 students costs $1,200 a year for clinicals and testing, or programs can buy seats from $9 to $69 a student. Prices are locked for 3 years.