National EMS Education Standards

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National EMS Education Standards Communiqué #8

On behalf of the National Association of EMS Educators (NAEMSE), the

National EMS Education Standards Development Team is pleased to

present the first drafts of the National EMS Education Standards (the

Standards) for your critical review and comment. Although NAEMSE is

leading this task, the Standards will be a product of the national

EMS community.

The effort, funded by a cooperative agreement among NAEMSE, the

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), and the

Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), represents the

next step in implementing the EMS Education Agenda for the Future: A

Systems Approach.

The first-draft Standards serve as a starting point for dialogue with

the national EMS community. Please review the material and share

your comments, suggestions, and observations with the project team so

we can further refine and improve the documents. Please be as clear

and specific as possible when articulating your feedback. The final

National EMS Education Standards will be most successful when they

reflect the broadest possible consensus of the EMS community.

The Standards for all four levels of EMS personnel -- Emergency

Medical Responder (EMR), Emergency Medical Technician (EMT), Advanced

EMT (AEMT), and Paramedic – are available. To view and download

drafts and instructions on how to submit your comments, please visit

the project website: www.nemses.org.

The Project Team also developed Instructional Guidelines to aid

instructors, EMS education programs, and publishers. The

Instructional Guidelines for the EMT and Paramedic levels are also

available for your review and we have just posted the Instructional

Guidelines for EMR and AEMT.

All review comments will be submitted to the Project Team and

considered for incorporation into the drafts. We will accept

comments on the first drafts until July 31, 2007.

The Project Team will:

• Continue to revise and update future drafts of all the

Standards

• Depend on your continued feedback on subsequent drafts

• Present final drafts of the Standards to the national EMS

community at a National EMS Stakeholder meeting in February 2008.

The final National EMS Education Standards will be submitted to NHTSA

in September 2008.

Kenny Navarro

NEMSES Project Coordinator

UT Southwestern Medical Center

Emergency Medical Education

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