A skills check is a controlled demonstration. A paramedic performs a procedure, such as IV access, in front of a training officer or Medical Director, who grades it against a checklist your agency wrote.
A skills check is separate from your calls. It never changes your scorecard or your call numbers.
What a checklist proves, and what it doesn't
Every checklist states two things: what passing it proves, and what it does not prove. CaseSync won't save a checklist without both. You'll see them at the top of every check, before you're graded, and on the printed record.
Who can grade
A training officer or a Medical Director. Training officer is a permission your administrator grants, not a role you switch into.
Nobody can grade their own check. If you're the only person at your agency who can grade, you'll need a second grader.
For paramedics
Open More → My development. The Skills checks section shows your checks and where each one stands: Not submitted, Waiting to be graded, Graded or Abandoned.
- Run the check with your training officer.
- Open it and select Submit for grading.
- After grading, the check shows Met or Not met, your points, and the steps that lost points.
If a check was filed by someone else on your behalf, select I performed this check to confirm it.
If a check is Not met, select Start another attempt. The first attempt stays on your record. The new one sits alongside it, not over it.
For graders
Open More → Verifications. It lists every check waiting to be graded.
- Select Grade this check.
- Score each step.
- Tick any critical criterion that happened. Any one critical criterion ends the check as Not met, whatever the points say.
- Select Record this grade.
Every step must be scored. CaseSync won't record a partial grade.
Writing a checklist (administrators and Medical Directors)
Go to Admin → Quality → Competency checklists.
- Under Author a checklist, give it a title and choose the procedure it covers.
- Fill in What passing this proves and What it does not prove.
- Add the steps and their points. Mark at least one step as carrying the claim.
- Add any critical criteria.
- Select Save as draft, then Submit for attestation.
A Medical Director then selects Attest and publish. Only a Medical Director can do that. Publishing a new checklist retires the one it replaces.
The printable record
From any graded check, select Printable record, then Print / Save as PDF.
The printout is an unsigned record from your agency's own files. It isn't a credential or a licence, and it doesn't carry over to another agency.
Training library
If your agency has the training module, More → Training opens a searchable library of body-camera clips for teaching.