EMCE

The app has way too many on screen pop up tips and alert boxes. Many of which either repeat even after you have closed them or you are unable to close them at all. Try writing a narrative for a patient in a window that only shows 1 line because the glaring yellow pop up will not close. Maybe the app isn’t designed properly for an iPhone. Besides these issues the app is incredibly difficult to use for both skills and patient contacts. Better off using an excel spreadsheet or paper. I was told by other students that it worked great initially but as it has evolved it’s only gotten worse. Good luck! YMMV

First - instructors must do a Zoom with the developer to learn the app and be able to teach students how to use it. Mike is a nice guy and will walk you through how to use the App. It is still the most convoluted app ever written. However Mike is committed to taking feedback and making it more user friendly. I foolishly started using it for an AEMT Class I am teaching without doing training. My students hated it and I hated it. Signing off simple skills takes multiple steps from fields that don’t make any sense to me. However, after training with Mike I am starting to learn my way around. As all of the portfolio trackers are bad for AEMTs, this one is an option that I am reluctantly learning. It does have a lot of depth and functionality once you know where to look.

I reviewed this when we started using the app and the EMCE program about 2 years ago and things just get stronger and more flexible to program resources while helping meet program minimum competencies. All I can say is that those one-star reviewers likely haven't had to use other programs or they haven't tried to work with the tech support. The new AI generated scenarios and learning tools are a great addition. One of my favorite features is the sim session, which I use during summative sim sessions that are recorded. I can go back to the recordings and make specific comments, etc. In the field if a preceptor wants to use paper, the student can attach it and I can use that to complete the evals, but it's even easier when the preceptor fills the eval in directly and makes comments I can read on my mobile device. I always feel like I know what's going on with the student in terms of both patient/skills and preceptor evaluations. Load times were an issue for a bit and then one meeting with tech support and voila! Problem solved.