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Emergency Medical Services

Step One - Emergency Medical Technician EMS 10 - 6 units

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Careers for people interested in EMS Courses:

  • EMT
  • Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)
  • ACLS Instructor
  • Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS)
  • PALS Instructor
  • Pre-hospital Trauma Life Support (PHTLS)
  • PHTLS Instructor
  • EKG-Dysrhythmia Interpretation

Concurrent with Basic Life
Support RNURS 14 - .5 Units
Prepares students for certification as an Emergency Medical Technician. This course meets the State of California Department of Health standards for Emergency Medical Training 1A. This course builds on the "First Responder" curriculum and includes airway control, medical and traumatic emergencies, care of pediatric, geriatric and specialized patients, emergency childbirth, multiple patient incidents and understanding EMS responder well being.

Step Two - Where Do You Want to Go from Here? 
LMC provides partnership training in the following of areas:

  • Basic Law Enforcement Academy

  • Fire Technology

Methods of Instruction:

  1. Didactic which includes textbook subject matter, medical terminology, principles, objectives and case studies.
  2. Self paced CD ROM exercises and videos (EMT)
  3. Web site activities, message boards and quiz practice (EMT)
  4. Laboratory practice and return demonstration of skills
  5. Emergency Room clinical experience and evaluation (EMT)
  6. Ambulance ride-a-long experience and evaluation (EMT)
  7. Practical multi patient incident drill

Completion of the Emergency Medical Technician-Basic courses qualifies students to test for EMT-1 State Certification.

Contact the department
Emergency Medical Services

Los Medanos College
2700 E. Leland Rd.
Pittsburg, CA., 94565
925-439-2181 ext. 3352