EMS - Advanced EMT and Paramedic

Emergency Medical Technician 

Emergency Medical Technician is a one-semester instructional course that prepares the individual to provide basic emergency medical care and transportation for critical and emergency 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 diseases.  Students who complete the program are eligible to take the National Registry of Emergency Medical Technician Cognitive and Psychomotor Exams and become state certified.

Advanced Emergency Medical Technician 

This course is designed to prepare the student to function competently as an Advanced Emergency Medical Technician as described in the National EMS Scope of Practice Model. The primary focus of EMS providers at this level takes the skill and knowledge set of the EMT and adds new skills and treatment modalities for critical and emergent patients who access the emergency medical system. The Advanced Emergency Medical Technician functions as part of a comprehensive EMS system and functions under medical oversight to provide emergency care at a higher level than EMT level providers but less than that provided by a Paramedic level provider.    A student must successfully complete the EMS course sequence listed before eligibility to test NREMT AEMT exam is granted. 

Paramedic 

The paramedic training program is a postsecondary program drawing its students from individuals who already possess a valid EMT national certification. Classroom instruction is comprehensive including a working knowledge of all anatomy, physiology, and pathophysiological processes as well as competency-based instruction in assessment and management skills required for treatment of life-threatening problems in the adult, pediatric, and geriatric patient. Clinical internship requires participation in care of patients in a hospital emergency department that provides medical control to ALS providers in the field and, according to availability, CCU, ICU, labor and delivery suite, operating room, psychiatric ward, pediatric ward, and geriatric ward. Field internship is done with an ambulance service and/or rescue service providing advanced life support services to the community. This training program is sanctioned by the Mississippi State Board of Health.