Fit to graduate? A feasibility study.:Assess the feasibility of implementing OPPATTM procedure and data collection instruments in the Australian context.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Fit to Graduate – A feasibility study. Assess the feasibility of implementing OPPATTM procedure and data collection instruments in the Australian context. Introduction There are significant injury rates across ambulance services in Australia. This may indicate a need for evidence-based pre-employment physical fitness assessment standards. This study aims to assess the feasibility of an existing, international, standardised pre-employment paramedic physical capacity test, the Ottawa Paramedic Physical Abilities Test (OPPATTM ), for application to Australian ambulance services. Methods: 12 paramedicine students studying an undergraduate paramedicine degree completed a 3MST20, a grip strength test, two employment based physical fitness tests , including the OPPATTM and the New South Wales Ambulance musculoskeletal assessment, and brief perception questionnaires following each test. Physiological data were collected during testing using Hexoskin devices and are being analysed descriptively. Qualitative data relating to perceptions of aspects of the feasibility of the tests for use in the Australian paramedicine context will be analysed through content analysis. Results Data analysis for the feasibility study is ongoing and complete findings will be available for presentation. Some initial key findings include that the OPPATTM is adaptable to the Australian context and may be implemented by universities. Of the 12 participants (n=12), six participants (50%) were eligible to commence all physical tests, and of these, two (2) completed all physical tests to a satisfactory level, as set by current pre-employment requirements. Conclusion The OPPATTM is adaptable and likely feasible for application in Australian ambulance services, however, current student paramedics may not be physically prepared for the test. Further work is needed to ensure standardised and appropriate pre-employment testing specific to the paramedic role.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.069 | 0.084 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.010 | 0.003 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".