Pediatric Education for Prehospital Professionals (PEPP)

Why is this Program Important?

Less than 10% of all EMS calls received are for pediatric emergencies, making it essential for prehospital professionals and first responders to stay up to date with their cognitive learning and hands-on skills.

The Pediatric Education for Prehospital Professionals (PEPP) continuing education training program is the gold standard in pediatric medical education and is facilitated through a comprehensive, innovative, and highly visual course featuring:

• Case-based lectures
• Live-action video
• Hands-on skills stations
• Small group scenarios

The PEPP, Fourth Edition curriculum published in February 2020. For more information about the PEPP course, visit: http://peppsite.com/.

All course materials for the PEPP curriculum can be purchased through our external publisher, Jones and Bartlett Learning Public Safety Group, at https://www.psglearning.com/catalog/productdetails/9781284229752.

The AAP provides membership discounts for sales of the PEPP, Fourth Edition textbook at https://shop.aap.org/pediatric-education-for-prehospital-professionals-pepp-4th-edition-provider-manual-paperback/.  

Who Can Benefit?

Our target market for the PEPP continuing education training program is the prehospital professional and first responder.

Globally, the PEPP program has a large following/presence in the following locations:

PEPP (English curriculum):

• Canada
• England
• UAE

PEPP (Spanish curriculum):

• Mexico
• Puerto Rico
• Panama

PEPP has a presence in 29 countries, with established programs in the United Kingdom (UK) and Canada.

PEPP course completion cards are offered to US and global participants who successfully complete all program requirements.

Program Details

The PEPP Course is a continuing education course that is designed to provide prehospital professionals and first responders with the education and hands-on skills that are necessary to properly assess and stabilize a pediatric patient in an emergency.

Providers are presented with case-based lectures or online modules on the following topic areas:

• Pediatric Assessment (required for ALS and BLS)
• Trauma (required for ALS and BLS)
• Resuscitation and Dysrhythmias (required for ALS and BLS)
• Child Maltreatment (required for ALS and BLS)
• Medical Emergencies (required for ALS and BLS)
• Shock (required for ALS)
• Toxicology (required for ALS)

Additionally, an EMS provider will participate in the required hands-on skill stations which include Airway, Trauma, and Resuscitation.

Following successful completion of the course, participants are sent an electronic PEPP Course Completion Certificate.

PEPP courses include 8.25 – 18.75 hours of CAPCE credit.

How is the Program Implemented?

The PEPP Course is offered at the advanced life support (ALS) and Basic Life Support (BLS) level and can be facilitated as a traditional onsite or hybrid course.

Onsite Course – Traditional classroom-based course. Learners are required to complete precourse work consisting of procedural skills videos as well as a pretest.

Hybrid Course – Combination of online learning and hands-on practice in the classroom. Learners are required to complete precourse work consisting of self-directed online modules and review of procedural skills videos.

Delivering Value and Impact

In the US based market, the PEPP course has trained over 300,000 EMS providers since 2000, with annual training figures averaging 12,000 providers per year. The PEPP program includes an active training network of 1200 PEPP Course Coordinators who facilitate PEPP courses in their local regions.

While the PEPP program has a presence in 29 countries, we believe we can further the adoption rate and growth of this program globally.

The AAP has partnered with Health Scholars on two new virtual reality applications for the EMS community.

• Pediatric Emergency Assessment^TM
• Pediatric Emergency Care^TM

Visit www.aap.org/EMSvirtualreality for more information.

Program Partnerships

The PEPP program is published in partnership with Jones and Bartlett Learning Public Safety Group (https://www.psglearning.com/). Class Publishing, LTD serves as our distributor for all global sales.

The AAP also collaborates with the National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians (NAEMT) on several shared and relevant pediatric emergency medicine activities. NAEMT adopted the PEPP textbook as a reference material for their Emergency Pediatric Care (EPC) continuing education training program.