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Baldy View ROP - EMT Program

About Our EMT Program

The Baldy View ROP Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) program is a state and county approved EMT training school. The course follows the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) curriculum for EMT training. The Baldy View ROP Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) program has an experienced and dedicated group of instructors and administrators to assist students in their success in the program. Each instructor strives to create a supportive and challenging classroom atmosphere to encourage students to participate and learn. All of the instructors are currently working in the field of emergency medicine with either a local fire department, ambulance provider, or a local emergency room. Each of them brings their experience to the classroom to facilitate a better learning environment for the students. Students will have the material presented through powerpoint presentations, lectures, videos and manipulative skills demonstrations and practice, and simulated "real-life" scene scenarios to better prepare the student for entering the workforce as an competent EMT.

Since the adoption of the National Registry examination as the state EMT certification exam in January 2006, Baldy View ROP's EMT program currently has a first time pass rate of 86.3% and an overall 93.9% pass rate on its students passing the National Registry certification examination. The national average from the National Registry for the EMT-Basic examination is only a 71% first time pass rate published in their 2006 annual report.

EMT Students Earn College Credit at Baldy View ROP:

Baldy View ROP's EMT Program has established articulation with Crafton Hills College and upon successful completion of the EMT program students will earn six (6) units of college credit.

Course Breakdown:

Classroom Lecture / Skills Training: 195 hours

Clinical Internship: 24 hours

Field Ride Alongs: 24 hours

TOTAL HOURS: 243.0 hours

EMT Courses Offered:

Fall / Spring Semesters (currently no summer session is scheduled)

Fall 2008:

August 27th, 2008 - January 15th, 2009

Spring 2009:

January 20th, 2009-June 4th, 2009

*Effective Fall 2008, the EMT Program will be from Monday - Thursday *

High School Session: (afternoon)

Dates: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday (M-Th)

Times: 3:00pm-6:00pm (weekdays)

Adult Session: (evening)

Dates: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday (M-Th)

Times: 6:30pm-9:30pm (weekdays)

*** Students may make arrangements with the program director to switch a class session in the event the student may miss a class to avoid any absences***

***Priority enrollment is for students taking the EMT course for the first time. Students who have enrolled in a previous semester and have either dropped or continued in the course for credit only, will be placed on a wait list to register for the next upcoming semester. It is at the discretion of the EMT Program Director to allow re-entry into the EMT program.***

Clinical / Ambulance Field Ride Alongs (See specific tabs for more info.)

The Baldy View Regional Occupational Program has established requirements per the state of California’s Department of Transportation’s Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) curriculum, that students will participate and complete emergency room clinical shifts and ambulance field ride along shifts. These are requirements for the EMT student to earn course completion and to be eligible for state EMT certification.

Classroom Lectures:

The text book the EMT prgram is currently using is the Brady Emergency Care, 10th edition by Limmer. Lectures will be delivered by using powerpoint presentations by the course instructors. Student will be using the associated workbook with the textbook. Students will also be using the Basic Life Support Skills textbook by Baxter Larmon and Heather Davis for reference when it comes to skills practice and testing.

Skills Training:

The skills training days have been mixed in with the class lectures to allow for the students to be exposed to new skills and the opportunity for plenty of practice throughout the course. Baldy View ROP's EMT program has accumulated a large stock of EMS training equipment with which the students will be able to master their skills through continuous practice. All of the EMS equipment the students will be training with is the same equipment and supplies emergency responders are using in the field and in the emergency rooms.

Baldy View ROP is accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges.