Training Opportunities

Subject matter covered prepares the individual to respond to medical emergency calls, evaluate the nature of the emergency, take appropriate prompt action to reduce the medical hazards, transport to the receiving station, and serve as technical assistant to the emergency room staff of general hospitals. Specific course content is based on the National Department of Transportation and the National Standards Curriculum.The 135-hour course is offered by the State Bureau of Vocational, Technical, and Adult Education, with the cooperation of the Governors€™s Highway Safety Program, the Mississippi State Department of Health, and the 85 American College of Surgeons-Mississippi Committee on Trauma, through the Community/Junior College system.

Pre-requisites required:
Applicants must apply for EMCC admission and be accepted before completing a Program Application. Submit official copies of GED, high school or college transcripts. Have a minimum ACT composite of 16, if taken after October 1989, or 12 if taken before October 1989. Have a copy of a valid driver’s license showing the applicant to be 18 years old before the beginning date of the EMT class.

Length of Program:
135 hours

Summary of Program Requirements:
Applicants must apply for EMCC admission and be accepted before completing a Program Application. Submit official copies of GED, high school or college transcripts. Have a minimum ACT composite of 16, if taken after October 1989, or 12 if taken before October 1989. Have a copy of a valid driver’s license showing the applicant to be 18 years old before the beginning date of the EMT class.

Skills Needed
Speaking, Active Listening, Critical Thinking, Monitoring, Social Perceptiveness, Service Orientation Judgment and Decision Making, Active Learning, Coordination, Persuasion, Science, Operation Monitoring

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.

Pre-requisites required:

Length of Program:
1 semester

Summary of Program Requirements:

Skills Needed
Speaking, Active Listening, Critical Thinking, Monitoring, Social Perceptiveness, Service Orientation Judgment and Decision Making, Active Learning, Coordination, Persuasion, Science, Operation Monitoring

Emergency Medical Technology-Basic is an instructional program that prepares individuals to function in the pre-hospital environment. The EMT-Basic program provides instruction in basic life support care of sick and injured persons. This includes: airway assessment, 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.

Pre-requisites required:
Applicants must apply for Northwest admission and be accepted before completing a Program Application. Be at least 18 years of age. Be a high school or GED graduate. Attain an 18 on the ACT or a 12 on the TABE. Be a high school or GED graduate Attain an 18 on the ACT or a 12 on the TABE

Length of Program:
1 semester

Summary of Program Requirements:
Applicants must apply for Northwest admission and be accepted before completing a Program Application. Be at least 18 years of age. Be a high school or GED graduate. Attain an 18 on the ACT or a 12 on the TABE. Be a high school or GED graduate Attain an 18 on the ACT or a 12 on the TABE

Skills Needed
Speaking, Active Listening, Critical Thinking, Monitoring, Social Perceptiveness, Service Orientation Judgment and Decision Making, Active Learning, Coordination, Persuasion, Science, Operation Monitoring