Advanced Program

Paramedic Training Program

Advance from EMT to paramedic — advanced airway, cardiology, and pharmacology in the field.

Clock hours
1100 clock hours
Length / credits
Multi-semester sequence
Format
Didactic · Hospital clinicals · Field internship
Program overview

What Paramedic Training Program covers

This 1100-hour paramedic program deepens the cognitive, affective, and psychomotor domains of prehospital medicine. Students move through didactic classroom theory, hospital clinical rotations across emergency, ICU, and labor-and-delivery units, and a final field internship riding with a transporting EMS agency.

Program highlights

  • Advanced airway & ventilatory management
  • 12-lead ECG interpretation & cardiology
  • IV access, fluid therapy & pharmacology
  • Trauma assessment & advanced resuscitation

What you'll be able to do

  • Interpret 12-lead ECGs in the field
  • Administer advanced life-support medications
  • Lead a resuscitation team
  • Transition seamlessly into a transporting EMS role
Admissions

Requirements to enroll

Have questions about eligibility? Our admissions team walks every applicant through the prerequisites before enrollment.

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  • Current Florida EMT certification
  • Active AHA BLS provider card
  • Minimum 1 year of EMS field experience preferred
  • Pass entrance exam & interview
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