Advanced EMT Certificate

Health Career Admissions
Program Code: G.AMT.CER

Graduation requirement: 8 credit hours

The Advanced EMT is a health professional whose primary focus is to:

• Respond to, assess, and triage nonurgent, 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.

The additional preparation beyond EMT prepares an AEMT to improve patient care in common emergency conditions for which reasonably safe, targeted, and evidence-based interventions exist. Interventions within the AEMT scope of practice may carry more risk if not performed properly than interventions authorized for the EMR/EMT levels.

With proper supervision, an AEMT may serve as a patient care team member in a hospital or health care setting to the full extent of their education, certification, licensure, and credentialing. In a community setting, an AEMT might visit patients at home and make observations that are reported to a higher-level authority to help manage a patient’s care.

Advanced emergency medical technicians:

• Function as part of a comprehensive EMS response, community, health, or public safety system with medical oversight.
• Perform interventions with the basic and advanced equipment typically found on an ambulance.
• Perform focused advanced skills and pharmacological interventions that are engineered to mitigate specific life-threatening conditions, medical, and psychological conditions with a targeted set of skills beyond the level of an EMT.
• Function as an important link from the scene into the health care system.

Graduates of this program are eligible to take the National Registry Advanced EMT cognitive and psychomotor exams.