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Emergency Services Technology


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Emergency Services Technology
https://www.northwestms.edu/programs/healthsciences/emergency-medical-technology

Emergency Medical Technology - Basic, Advanced and Paramedic

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. Students seeking Advanced EMT training must first hold certification as an EMT student. The EMT-Paramedic program is designed to prepare students to work as skilled paramedics and to provide sophisticated, advanced pre-hospital life support. After successful completion of this program students are eligible to take the National Registry’s Exam as an EMT-Paramedic.

 Admissions Criteria:

  • Age: 18 by the time clinical rotation occurs
  • Have a high school diploma or equivalent on file with the NWCC Office of Admissions and Records
  • Have a NWCC ID (see below how to get an NWCC ID)
  • ACT: No specific score is required
  • Paramedic applicants must have EMT National Registry Certification and a grade of “C” or higher in Anatomy and Physiology Lecture and Lab

Complete:

Admission to the college does not guarantee admission to the program. You must first be accepted to the college before completing the EMT application. If you do not have an NWCC ID  you must be accepted to NWCC. Complete the steps for application to NWCC at https://www.northwestms.edu/admissions.

Applications: Open

Curriculum Information:

Campus Location: EMT-Basic: Senatobia, DeSoto Center-Southaven, Oxford-Lafayette
                              EMT-Paramedic: Senatobia
Degree: EMT-Basic Certificate, Paramedic-Certificate or Associate Degree of Applied Science
Examination-EMT-Basic National EMT Registry; EMT-Paramedic National Paramedic Registry.

 

Paramedic/EMT Faculty

James Leslie Duke, Director
662.562.3937
jduke@northwestms.edu

 

 

Programs

    AssociateCertificate

    Courses

      Emergency Medical TechnologyEmergency Medical Technology-Paramedic

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