August 2024 Paramedic Cohort Graduation
REMSA Health’s Center for Integrated Health and Community Education is pleased to announce that 14 students of the August 2024 Paramedic Cohort successfully completed the organization’s 12-month paramedic program. The program builds on the existing knowledge and skills of an emergency medical technician (EMT) or an advanced emergency medical technician (AEMT). To complete the program, students must master advanced assessment techniques, complex emergency procedures and effective patient interactions.
The program includes 581 didactic/lecture hours, 228 hours of clinical site experience, which must take place in an emergency department, operating room, intensive care unit, urgent care facility, labor and delivery department, etc. and 480 hours on an ambulance as a functioning entry-level paramedic. Students develop their skills related to advanced respiratory, cardiac, medical and trauma care, EMS operations, pediatric and obstetric patient/scene assessments, and advanced pharmacologic instruction.
Advanced skills include emergency airway interventions and intravenous medication administration.
Upon successful completion of the program, the graduates become eligible to take the National Registry of EMT’s Exam, a two-part test involving a hands-on exam which is completed during the last week of the class, as well as a cognitive online exam. Once the registry exam is successfully completed, the students can begin work on an ambulance as a nationally registered paramedic.
REMSA Health’s Center for Education continues to maintain a 100 percent first-time pass rate on the National Registry of Emergency Medical Services Paramedic Exam – a rate more than 25 percent higher than the national average of 72 percent.
REMSA Health’s paramedic program is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs through the Committee on Accreditation of Educational Programs for the Emergency Medical Services Professions.
