TPF Digital Archive · Rural and remote paramedicine · Open access

A digital archive of the history of rural and remote paramedicine

This free archive holds documents on how community paramedicine and rural prehospital care took shape. Practitioners, researchers, policymakers and international partners wrote and shared them over more than two decades. The Paramedic Foundation (TPF) keeps them here as an open record of the field’s history.

491
Archived documents
Six categories, free to download
2001
Earliest archived material
Through 2025
8+
Countries of origin
US, Canada, UK, Australia, NZ & more
43
IRCP presentations
Recombined from archived slides, 2010–2014

About this archive

A record of a field as it was being built

Emergency medical services (EMS) agencies, state offices, academic researchers, government bodies and international groups wrote these papers over more than two decades. People shared them at conferences, passed them among colleagues and sent them across borders as the field grew. TPF has served as a convener and clearinghouse for much of this material. It collects, indexes and keeps the papers so the field’s history stays open to all.

TPF does not claim authorship of the documents in this archive unless a document says so. Each document is the work of its original authors and organizations. They are offered here as historical reference, in the spirit in which they were first shared: across borders and professions, to move the field forward.

Archive framework and copyright

This archive is a nonprofit digital preservation resource. It works under the following framework:

  • 17 USC 108 (US library and archive exemption). As a nonprofit educational archive, TPF relies on Section 108 of the US Copyright Act. It lets libraries and archives copy and share works for preservation and scholarly research, as long as there is no direct or indirect commercial purpose.
  • Fair use and fair dealing. Documents are provided only for education, research and professional reference. That use is non-commercial and aimed at practitioners and researchers. It is transformative, because TPF indexes each document and places it in context. Fair use provisions (17 USC 107) and international fair dealing provisions are cited where they apply.
  • Crown Copyright. Papers written by government bodies in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand fall under Crown Copyright in each country. Where it applies, UK Crown Copyright material is shared under the Open Government Licence. Crown Copyright material from Canada, Australia and New Zealand is included for non-commercial teaching and reference. Each document card shows its copyright status in its home country.
  • US federal works. Works by US federal agencies are in the public domain. Under 17 USC 105, they are not subject to copyright. These agencies include the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and others.
  • Orphan works. A small number of documents here are orphan works. An orphan work is one whose rights holder cannot be identified or found after reasonable effort. These are included as historical reference and clearly labeled. TPF commits to respond to any rights holder within 14 business days. It will remove or restrict access to any document on a verified request.

Each document card in this archive displays a copyright status badge. Each badge is TPF’s good-faith assessment of the document’s status and is not legal advice. If you hold rights to a document here and want to discuss its inclusion, removal or attribution, contact TPF at [email protected].

Public Domain TPF Archive Crown Copyright Org. Copyright Rights Holder Unknown

Copyright takedown and correction procedure

If you hold the rights to a document here and want it removed, corrected or credited differently, send a written notice to [email protected] with the subject line Archive Takedown Request. Your notice should include:

  1. Your name, organization, and contact information
  2. The document title and URL as it appears in this archive
  3. A description of your rights in the work
  4. What you want done: removal, updated credit, or an added rights statement

TPF will acknowledge receipt within 5 business days and complete the requested action or provide a written response within 14 business days. While a takedown request is open, the document will be marked as restricted.

The Community Paramedic curriculum is kept separately. TPF makes sure it reaches bona fide educational institutions, which can ask for it. Contact TPF for curriculum access.

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103 documents

Community Paramedicine Program Implementation

Papers from EMS agencies, state health departments and program builders. They were written from 2001 to 2023, as community paramedicine programs were designed and launched in North America and other countries.

🇨🇦 Angels Can't Fly: Window and Balcony Fall Prevention
2007
Org. CopyrightEnglishFrenchA presentation by Emergency Medical Care Inc. of Halifax on the national window and balcony fall prevention safety program for children.
fall preventionwindow safetybalcony safetychild safetyems
French ↓
🇨🇦 Window and Balcony Safety BrochureOrg. CopyrightEnglishFrenchA safety brochure from the Toronto EMS Partners Promoting Window and Balcony Safety program, citing CHIRPP data on children falling from windows and describing the program's injury prevention awareness efforts.
window safetybalcony safetybrochuretoronto emsinjury prevention
French ↓
03

11 documents

Rural EMS System Planning

Planning papers, system reviews, workforce studies and references on long-term finances. They were written by and for rural and remote EMS systems in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.

04

327 documents

Research and Evidence

Peer-reviewed articles, white papers, consensus papers and conference papers. They look at community paramedicine results, mobile integrated health and EMS workforce issues. Researchers shared them across borders as the evidence for the field was built.

05

43 presentations · reconstructed from archived slides

International Roundtable on Community Paramedicine (IRCP) Annual Meeting Archive

Presentations, conference programs and supporting materials from every annual IRCP meeting. Choose a year to browse. Visit the IRCP page or ircp.info for upcoming meetings. Where video recordings are available they appear directly in the presentation card.

IRCP 2010
9 presentations▾
IRCP 2012
14 presentations▾
IRCP 2013
16 presentations▾
IRCP 2014
4 presentations▾
06

5 documents

National Policy and Reference Documents

National and international policy frameworks, federal agency guidance and papers that compare EMS systems. They come from the United States, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Canada and Australia. Practitioners and policymakers gathered and shared them as they made the policy case for reform in community paramedicine.

Have a document that belongs in this archive?

If you wrote or hold a paper on the history of community paramedicine or rural prehospital care, TPF would like to add it here. If you hold the rights to a paper already here, TPF welcomes your note too. The Community Paramedic (CP) curriculum is available separately to bona fide educational institutions.

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