Emergency Medical Science - AAS Degree
The Emergency Medical Science curriculum provides individuals with the knowledge, skills, and attributes to provide advanced emergency medical care as a paramedic for critical and emergent patients who access the emergency medical system and prepares graduates to enter the workforce.
Students will gain complex knowledge, competency, and experience while employing evidence-based practice under medical oversight and serve as a link from the scene into the healthcare system.
Graduates of this program may be eligible to take state and/or national certification examinations.
Employment opportunities include providers of emergency medical services, fire departments, rescue agencies, hospital specialty areas, industry, educational and government agencies.
Program Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of the Emergency Medical Science Program, the graduate should be able to:
- Demonstrate comprehensive knowledge of prehospital pharmacology through scenarios and skill reviews.
- Demonstrate skills and knowledge of prehospital care for patients of all ages through scenarios and skill reviews.
- Competently perform prehospital care for patients with cardiac emergencies through scenarios and skill reviews.
- Demonstrate proficiency in prehospital care for patients needing airway management through scenarios and skill reviews.
- Competently perform prehospital care for patients with traumatic emergencies through scenarios and skill reviews.
- Demonstrate comprehensive knowledge of prehospital care for patients with medical emergencies through scenarios and skill reviews.
- Demonstrate competency of skills of a paramedic ready to enter the workforce through completion of a National Registry Paramedic skills portfolio.
- Apply competent entry-level paramedic skills and knowledge in a final scope-of-practice high fidelity scenario.
- Demonstrate entry-level mastery of paramedic knowledge through a comprehensive written final exam.
Emergency Medical Science (Paramedic) Checklist
Fall Semester I
Spring Semester I
| BIO-169 | Anatomy and Physiology II | 3 | | 0 | 4 |
| EMS-122 | EMS Clinical Practicum I | 0 | | 3 | 1 |
| EMS-130 | Pharmacology | 3 | | 0 | 4 |
| EMS-131 | Advanced Airway Management | 1 | | 0 | 2 |
| EMS-160 | Cardiology I | 2 | | 0 | 3 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 14 |
Summer Semester I
| EMS-210 | Advanced Patient Assessment | 1 | | 0 | 2 |
| EMS-220 | Cardiology II | 2 | | 0 | 3 |
| EMS-221 | EMS Clinical Practicum II | 0 | | 6 | 2 |
| EMS-240 | Patients With Special Challenges | 1 | | 0 | 2 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 9 |
Fall Semester II
| EMS-231 | EMS Clinical Practicum III | 0 | | 9 | 3 |
| EMS-250 | Medical Emergencies | 3 | | 0 | 4 |
| EMS-260 | Trauma Emergencies | 1 | | 0 | 2 |
| EMS-270 | Life Span Emergencies | 3 | | 0 | 4 |
| ENG-112 | Writing and Research in the Disciplines | 3 | | 0 | 3 |
| ENG-114 | Professional Research & Reporting | 3 | | 0 | 3 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 16 |
Spring Semester II
| EMS-241 | EMS Clinical Practicum IV | 0 | | 12 | 4 |
| EMS-285 | EMS Capstone | 1 | | 0 | 2 |
| PSY-150 | General Psychology | 3 | | 0 | 3 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 12 |
Total Credit Hours: 68
Humanities/Fine Arts courses: ART-111, ART-114, ART-115, ENG-231, ENG-232, ENG-241, ENG-242, HUM-115, MUS-110, PHI-240, REL-110, REL-211, REL-212 or REL-221.