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Prepare to deliver lifesaving prehospital care with FireMed’s EMT program, designed to equip students with critical skills for assessing and treating patients across medical emergencies and traumatic injuries. This course blends foundational EMS principles—roles, anatomy, trauma response, and patient transportation—with dynamic case studies developed collaboratively by instructors and students to simulate real-world challenges.

Prerequisites

Students must be 18+ upon completion of the course

Must hold a valid driver’s license.

ICS 200, 700 and Hazmat Awareness – Found on FEMAs website – Must be completed prior to the first class.

Learning Approach

Engage through interactive lectures, hands-on labs, simulated emergencies, and case studies. Mastery is evaluated via skills assessments, written exams, and assignments.

Key Course Objectives

• Describe the roles of EMS in the healthcare system.
• Demonstrate the professional attributes expected of EMTs.
• Perform the roles and responsibilities of an EMT with regard to personal safety and wellness, as well as the safety of others.
• Perform the duties of an EMT with regard to medical-legal and ethical issues, including functioning under medical direction and within the scope of practice.
• Apply principles of anatomy, physiology, pathophysiology, lifespan development, and therapeutic communications to the assessment and management of patients.
• Identify the need for and perform immediate life-saving interventions to manage a patient’s airway, breathing, and circulation.
• Assess and manage patients of all ages with a variety of complaints, medical conditions, and traumatic injuries.
• Apply principles of emergency medical services operations, including considerations in ambulance and air medical transportation, multiple casualty incidents, gaining access to and extricating patients, hazardous materials incidents, and responding to situations involving weapons of mass destruction.

Completion Requirements

Maintain an 80% course average, pass the final exam (≥80%), and demonstrate all required skills. 

Attendance Policy 

Student attendance is required at all scheduled classes, including lab sessions. Students may be dropped from the course for excessive absences of any kind. Excused absences may be granted by the course instructor for extenuating circumstances. If three or more absences occur for any reason, the status of the student will be reviewed by the instructors to determine a disposition. Course failure is likely under these circumstances. If a student misses any class, he/she is responsible for any missed examinations, lab work, and material covered in that class session. Prompt arrival is expected at all class activities. It is the student’s responsibility to sign in on the attendance roster.

Course Materials

Textbook: Emergency Care and Transportation of the Sick and Injured, 12th Edition by Jones & Bartlett Learning – ISBN# 9781284237030

Tuition Includes

All materials including course manual, Jones & Bartlett online access, Platinum Planner skill-tracking software, clinical fees, uniform shirt, and insurance.

Tuition: $1850

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