Advocacy
Most States Still Do Not Call EMS an Essential Service
Nineteen states and the District of Columbia now use the word in law, but it rarely comes with a duty or a budget, and Medicare still pays only when a patient is moved.
For Agencies
Which Agencies Are a Good Fit for ProtoQuiz
Training that fits the shift, faster onboarding, and a feedback loop on whether it is working. See if this is your agency.
App Updates
ProtoQuiz Is Now on Android
Study your own EMS protocol on Android: upload the PDF, get quizzes built from it, with every answer tied to its page.
App Updates
September Update: No Ads, Home Meds, and What You Asked For
ProtoQuiz has no ads: a free week of Premium, then a free tier. Home Meds arrives in 2.6.4. And what 33 of you told us about checking protocols on a call.
Study Guide
ProtoQuiz Is THE Tool for Paramedic Students
In paramedic school you have to learn your ride service's full protocol, and it never matches the NREMT material. ProtoQuiz drills that protocol from the document itself.
App Updates
Study Your Medications with AI
Version 2.6.2: seven days of Premium with no card, Med Mastery hard mode grades what you type against your own protocol, and algorithm quizzes fit your cert level.
For Agencies
ProtoQuiz for Agencies, Rebuilt: Your Protocol In, One Quiz per Shift Out
Your agency sends the protocol, we build and check the question bank from it, and crews get one short quiz per shift, cited to your pages and scoped by cert level.
App Updates
Medicine Mode Is Live: A Living Textbook for EMS
742 evidence-cited topics on the pathophysiology and research behind what we do on the truck, following the patient from dispatch to the ICU.
App Updates
ProtoQuiz Update: NREMT Prep Is Now Included - and It's Free
1,700+ NREMT questions with per-option rationales, a readiness dashboard, and an adaptive exam simulator that behaves like the real test.
Blog
We Compared 53 EMS Protocols From Across the Country. This Is What We Found.
Real providers uploaded 53 EMS protocols and we read every page. Starting doses, arrest rules, stroke scales and scope of practice vary more than you would think.
App Updates
Why We Made ProtoQuiz Fully Free
Why we dropped daily limits for an ad-supported model in April. Since then the ads are gone, and the free tier is 3 per day of each generated feature.
Study Tips
How to Study EMS Protocols: A Practical Guide for Medics
Re-reading your protocol PDF feels productive but does not stick. Active recall, spaced repetition and scenarios do, in 2-3 hours a week.
Study Tips
Spaced Repetition for EMS: How to Remember Protocols Long-Term
You learn the amiodarone dose Monday and it is fuzzy by Thursday. Here is how spaced repetition fixes that.
Study Tips
EMS Pharmacology Study Guide: How to Actually Remember Your Drug Box
Group drugs by system, know 9 things about every one, and quiz yourself instead of re-reading.
Blog
EMS Training Compliance: What Training Officers Actually Need
A sign-in sheet proves someone was in the room, not that they learned anything. Here is what defensible EMS training compliance actually needs.
App Updates
ProtoQuiz 2.0: Significant Upgrades Across the Board
ProtoQuiz 2.0 rebuilt extraction from scratch: uploads dropped from 2-3 minutes to about 80 seconds, and scenarios got a dispatch screen.
Blog
ProtoQuiz's First Month: From Uploads to Algorithm Quizzes
A month in: 2,500+ quizzes generated, 600+ scenarios completed, and upload reliability climbing every week.
App Updates
Master Your EMS Protocols with ProtoQuiz
Every agency has its own protocol book. ProtoQuiz turns your protocol PDF into quizzes, scenarios and flashcards, with every question citing its page.
