In 1996 the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration convened a meeting of over 30 EMS organizations with the intent of implementing the educational portions of the EMS Agenda for the Future. The results of that meeting became known as the national EMS Education Agenda for the Future.29 The Education Agenda set out to describe how all EMS providers, including Paramedics, would be prepared for service in EMS by following a systems approach. The National EMS Education Agenda, a systems approach, established five components that incorporated the essential elements of an educational system and how these elements interacted in a system