Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) Initial Course
The full EMT course: lectures, hands-on skills labs and clinical shifts. Prepares you for NREMT certification and your Utah EMT license.
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Emergency Medical Responder (EMR) Initial Course
Your first step into EMS. Patient assessment, airway, bleeding control and CPR, preparing you for the NREMT EMR exam and a Utah EMR license.
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Overview
An entry-level course built to the National EMS Education Standards for the Emergency Medical Responder. You learn scene safety, patient assessment, airway management, bleeding control, CPR and AED use, and how to hand a patient off to the next level of care. The course prepares you for the NREMT EMR cognitive exam and the state-approved skills exam. Utah licenses EMRs at 16 and requires a Bureau-approved course, NREMT certification, CPR training from the past two years and a fingerprint background check. Take it in person at our training center, as a hybrid course with online lectures and in-person skills days, or with live online lectures and in-person skills days. Skills labs are always in person.
What You Will Learn
- Size up a scene for safety and call for the right resources
- Perform a primary and secondary patient assessment
- Open and maintain an airway and give oxygen and ventilations
- Control life-threatening bleeding, including tourniquet use
- Perform high-quality CPR and use an AED
- Give an accurate handoff report to the arriving EMS crew
Who Should Attend
New providers age 16 and up: firefighters, search and rescue, law enforcement, ski patrol, industrial response teams and anyone starting in EMS. Utah licensure; out-of-state students should confirm their own state office accepts the course.
Prerequisites
- Age 16 or older for a Utah EMR license (R911-5-201)
- Current BLS provider course completion card; Utah asks for CPR training within the past 2 years at license application
- Fingerprint background check when you apply for your license
Schedule
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Questions About This Course
About 56 hours over six weeks. Skills labs and skills verification are always in person, whichever format you choose.
EMR candidates get three attempts. After a third failed attempt NREMT requires a full new EMR course; there is no remediation option at the EMR level.
Open a course, pick a session and select Reserve Seat, then pay on our secure payment page by card or bank account (ACH). Paying online adds a processing fee, and you see the exact total before you pay. Your seat is confirmed as soon as the payment goes through. To pay by card over the phone or an agency purchase order instead, reserve your seat, then contact us. If no date works for you, request one.
Cancellation and reschedule terms depend on the course and are shown before you reserve. Contact us as early as you can and we will help you move to another date when seats are open.
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