Emergency Medical Services (EMS) & Trauma Courses

8 hours

      Learn how to respond to the many types of disaster scenarios they may encounter, including natural disasters, infrastructure failings, fires and radiological events, pandemics, active shooter incidents, and other mass casualty events.

      AHDR is for any level of first responder or pre-hospital provider, emergency management, or emergency medicine practitioner.

     Prerequisites: licensed healthcare provider

Initial: 16 hours

Renewal: 8 hours

     Learn to recognize and manage common medical crises through realistic case-based scenarios that challenge you to apply your knowledge to highly critical patients. 

     AMLS is appropriate for EMTs, paramedics, nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, nurse anesthetists and physicians.

     Prerequisites: licensed healthcare provider

     Focuses on the knowledge and skills that paramedics need to succeed as community paramedics and designed to prepare paramedics to take the IBSC Community Paramedic certification (CP-C) exam.

     Prerequisites: licensed paramedic

8 hours

     Learn how to protect yourself and your patients while on the job. EMS Safety is the only national, comprehensive safety course for EMS practitioners. It promotes a culture of safety and helps reduce the number of on-the-job fatalities and injuries.

     Prerequisites: None

Initial: 16 hours

Renewal: 8 hours

     EPC focuses on critical pediatric physiology, illnesses, injuries and interventions to help EMS practitioners provide the best treatment for sick and injured children in the field. 

     EPC is appropriate for EMTs, paramedics, emergency medical responders, nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and physicians.

     Prerequisites: licensed healthcare provider

8 hours

     EVOS addresses the knowledge gap that leads to injuries and deaths, and focuses on the specific behaviors that need to be changed to create a culture of safe driving.

     EVOS is appropriate for EMS practitioners at all levels and all first responders who may drive EMS vehicles.

     Prerequisites: licensed or certified emergency responder (MFR, EMT, AEMT, Paramedic, Firefighter, LEO)

4 hours

     FOTS teaches members of the general public basic emergency response to life-threatening emergencies until EMS arrives on the scene.  

     FOTS is taught by EMTs, AEMTs, Paramedics, EMS Instructors, Fire Service Instructors & NAEMT- approved Instructors.

     Prerequisites: None

Core: 8 hours

Advanced: 8 additional hours

     GEMS provides EMS practitioners at all levels with the skills and knowledge to address the unique medical, social, environmental and communications challenges of older adults. 

     GEMS is appropriate for EMTs, paramedics, emergency medical responders, nurses, physician assistants, and physicians.

     Prerequisites: licensed healthcare provider

8 hours

     MHRO will prepares you to serve as your agency’s Mental Health Resilience Officer. The MHRO engages with peers to develop an understanding of mental health issues and resilience; identifies peers who are experiencing mental health stressors and crises; assists peers in need to the right services for help; and supports the development of a culture of mental health resilience and emotional wellness within the agency.

     Prerequisites: licensed healthcare provider

16 hours

     Explore the importance of ethics and personal leadership; identify your leadership roles in civic life as an individual, family member, professional, and members of the community; and practice the skills important to the exercise of personal, ethical leadership.  

     PEPL is appropriate for EMTs, paramedics, other mobile healthcare practitioners, and emergency responders.

     Prerequisites: licensed healthcare provider

8 hours

     Learn about biological underpinnings of psychological trauma, the short and long-term impact on the brain and body, and warning signs that a patient is experiencing extreme psychological distress. Also learn strategies and techniques to alleviate patients’ distress and help patients cope.

     PTEP is designed for EMS practitioners and other prehospital providers.

     Prerequisites: licensed healthcare provider

- TCCC All Service Members – Tier 1 (TCCC-ASM) is a 7-hour course for all service members.

- TCCC Combat Lifesaver – Tier 2 (TCCC-CLS) is a 40-hour course for non-medical military personnel deploying in support of combat operations.

- TCCC Combat Medic/Corpsman – Tier 3 (TCCC-CMC) is a 63-hour course for military medical personnel including medics, corpsmen and pararescue personnel deploying in support of combat operations.

     Prerequisites: Armed Forces Service Member

16 hours

     The civilian version of the TCCC course teaches teaches EMS practitioners and other prehospital providers how to respond to and care for patients in a civilian tactical environment.

     Topics include hemorrhage control, MARCH assessment, surgical airway control & needle decompression, strategies for treating wounded responders in threatening environments, caring for pediatric patients, techniques for dragging and carrying victims to safety, and a final, mass-casualty/active shooter event simulation

     Prerequisites: EMS or other prehospital provider