CCOG for EMS 100 Winter 2025
- Course Number:
- EMS 100
- Course Title:
- Introduction to Emergency Medical Services
- Credit Hours:
- 2
- Lecture Hours:
- 20
- Lecture/Lab Hours:
- 0
- Lab Hours:
- 0
Course Description
Intended Outcomes for the course
Upon successful completion students should be able to:
- Utilize safe and appropriate precautionary measures to avoid contamination and/or contraction and spread of communicable diseases within the Emergency Medical Services response arena.
- Perform appropriate EMS role(s) within major and minor emergency response system incidents using the National Incident Management System guidelines.
- Use appropriate communication techniques in EMS role(s) within major and minor emergency response system incidents using the National Incident Management System guidelines.
- Use the Emergency Response Guidebook to mitigate hazards during a hazardous materials incident response.
Course Activities and Design
The material in this course will be presented in a lecture format. Other educationally sound methods may be employed such as discussion, guest lectures, and role playing.
Outcome Assessment Strategies
At the beginning of the course, the instructor will detail the methods used to evaluate student progress and the criteria for assigning a course grade. The methods may include one or more of the following tools: examinations, quizzes, homework assignments, small group problem solving of questions arising from application of course concepts and concerns to actual experience, short individual project papers, and role playing.
Course Content (Themes, Concepts, Issues and Skills)
The following concepts will be introduced:
•EMT-Basic/Intermediate/Paramedic Training
•Roles of Personnel
•EMS History and Trends
•Physician Supervisor
•Quality Assurance
•Certification Agencies
•Continuing Education
•Personal Safety/Hazardous Materials
•Scene Survey
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•Career Opportunities
•Protocols and Standing Orders
•Blood-borne Pathogens/Social Issues
•Critical Incident Stress
•Ambulance Specifications and Service Areas
•Trauma System
•Incident Command System
•Funding and Financing in EMS
•Medical Legal Issues
•Air Ambulance Operations
•EMS Funding Methods/Planning/Budgeting
•9-1-1 Dispatching/Call Taking