Rate My Professor David Reid

Reid’s research specializations encompass pre-hospital paramedicine, emergency management, mass gatherings, aeromedical clinical care and evacuation, and evidence-based competency assessment. His teaching focuses on emergency care, including trauma, prehospital resuscitation, ethics and law, and emergency management. Key publications include "Cardiac arrest events on Australian beaches" (2025, Resuscitation Plus), "Lifesaving cardiopulmonary resuscitation: A pilot evaluation of a targeted educational intervention to improve CPR provision in volunteer surf lifesavers" (2025, Journal of Emergency Medicine), "Calling an ambulance for non-emergency medical situations: Results of a cross-sectional online survey" (2023, Emergency Medicine Australasia), "Profiling the Australasian paramedicine tertiary academic sector and workforce" (2023, Paramedicine), "Preparedness of graduate paramedics for practice: A comparison of Australian and United Kingdom education pathways" (2019, Australasian Journal of Paramedicine), and "Pre-hospital advanced life support resuscitation – A curriculum for pre-hospital education" (2020, Australasian Journal of Paramedicine). He has received grants including the WA Clinical Training Network Simulated Learning Environments Research Grant ($15,000, 2016), Endeavour Grant ($16,000, 2016), and New Colombo Plan funding ($90,000, 2015). Reid serves on Surf Life Saving Australia’s Medical Advisory Committee and the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Healthcare’s Committee for Safety and Quality Standards for Australian Ambulance Services, acts as a competency assessor for the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (Ahpra), and leads a consortium of five universities providing assessment services to the Paramedicine Board of Australia.