Kyle David Bates, MS, NREMT-P,
CCEMT-P, FP-C
Owner, KyleDavidBates
Education Program Coordinator, Lake Plains Community Care Network
Paramedic, Town of Tonawanda Police & Mercy Flight

I would be happy to discuss my experiences with any prospective or current students. Please feel free to contact me at Kyle_Bates@alum.rit.edu or visit my website at KyleDavidBates.com.



Background: Let me start by saying that my love of photography and for medicine has always been a duel within my heart. Throughout my time at RIT I was involved in emergency medical services as a provider and instructor. In 1997 I graduated from the Bio-Med program going to work as a computer artist at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland and then as a biomedical photographer at Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington, D.C.

During this time I obtained my paramedic and started to realize that I missed working and teaching in EMS. In 2004 I received my MS in Emergency Health Services, with a concentration in education, from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and the rest, you can say is history as I have combined all my passions together.

Job Description:
Today not only do I work in EMS as a paramedic and educator, but I also develop and present educational programs for classroom and on-line distribution. I design all aspects of the programs from the curricula and assessment tools to the slides and handouts. The method that I use in teaching, developed with my co-author from Wisconsin, involves creating a case study where the instructor walks learners through a patient interaction, or problem, discussing various patient assessment pearls and presentations. To add realism, the learners must “interface” with a patient, which leads me to photograph the case. We create a storyboard and use make-up and digital techniques to simulate various illnesses and injuries for the presentation. We feel that this method is an effective means of delivering information to the learners. In fact, it has become so popular that we present a workshop at regional and international symposiums.

I guess my point is that no matter how different your true passions are, there is always a way to combine them together, you just have to look and think outside of the box.

Here are some examples of Kyle's work.