Advanced Emergency Medical Technician
The Advanced Emergency Medical Technician (AEMT) is a health professional whose primary focus is to respond to, assess and triage non-urgent, urgent, and emergent requests for medical care, apply basic and focused advanced knowledge and skills necessary to provide patient care and/or medical transportation and facilitate access to a higher level of care when the needs of the patient exceed the capability level of the AEMT. Like EMTs, this level of provider can be found on both Ambulances and Fire Rescues.
Requirements of an Advanced Emergency Medical Technicians include:
- Functioning as part of a comprehensive EMS response, community, health, or public safety system with medical oversight.
- Performing interventions with the basic and advanced equipment typically found on an ambulance and Certified Fire Rescues.
- Performing focused advanced skills and pharmacological interventions that are engineered to mitigate specific life-threatening conditions and medical and psychological conditions with a targeted set of skills beyond the level of an EMT.
- Functioning as an important link from the scene into the health care system.
This course consists of didactic hours, clinical rotations, and a field internship. Students spend approximately: 300 to 350 hours completing the course and its requirements.
