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Emergency Medical Technician (EMT)

Career CERTIFICATE

Emergency Medical Technician is a one-semester instructional program that prepares individuals to provide basic emergency medical care and transportation for critical and emergent patients who access the emergency medical system. Emergency Medical Technicians function as part of a comprehensive EMS response, under medical oversight, trained in airway management, communications, documentation, general pharmacology, hemorrhage control, ambulance operations, and splinting of adult, pediatric, and infant patients; and special care of patients exposed to heat, cold, radiation, or contagious disease. Students who complete the program are eligible to take the National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians Exam and become state certified.

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This program prepares students for a career in emergency medicine as an EMT-Basic. Students who complete this program and pass the National Registry are certified to practice pre-hospital medicine with an ambulance service.​

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