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Emergency Medical Dispatch Academy

EMD Academy Goal

Equip students with all the education needed to be a high-performing EMD in the cognitive (knowledge), psychomotor (skills), and affective (behavior) learning domains and a desirable candidate for employment as an Emergency Medical Dispatcher.

EMD Academy Faculty

The designated program director for the EMD program is the PHS Clinical Chief. The EMD lead instructor will be selected by the PHS Clinical Chief.

EMD Academy Curriculum

Purpose

Provide specialty core and support courses to ensure the achievement of program goals and learning domains and to meet or exceed the content and competency demands of the latest edition of the NHTSA National Standard Curriculum.

Curriculum

The EMD program will use the NHTSA National Standard Curriculum. Specifically, the current edition curriculum and textbooks from the International Academies of Emergency Dispatch will be utilized for EMD courses.

EMS 101 (Emergency Medical Dispatching) Course

This section is reserved for classroom details for EMS 101.

EMD Academy Examination Requirements

Each student must achieve a cumulative score of no less than 80% to successfully complete the course. Additionally, each student must achieve a score of no less than 70% on each exam and competency throughout the course.

In the event a student scores less than 70% on an exam, the exam may be retaken once. The average of the first and second attempt will be recorded in the gradebook. The second attemp must be above 70% and the overall score must remain above 80% to continue in the course.

EMD Academy Clinical Requirements

There are no clinical requirements for EMD Academy. However, students are highly encouraged to ride on an ambulance for 12 hours as a job shadow (no patient contact).

Ground Ambulance:

  • Prerequisites:
    • Successful completion of the mid-term exam.
  • Location options:
    • CMH PHS (Bolivar, Hermitage, Stockton, El Dorado Springs, or Osceola)
  • EMD students will shadow EMT.
  • Complete an optional 12 hours in no less than 4-hour blocks. Each block must start at the same time the ambulance shift starts.
  • Student scheduling information:

EMD Student Clinical Evaluation Card

Thank you for being a preceptor for a CMH EMD student.

For the student to get credit for completing this clinical shift, an evaluation must be completed by you.

Please go to the following link and complete the shift evaluation.

http://ozarksems.com/eval-clinical.php

Student name:
Clinical date:
Time in: Time out:

School contact for exposure or other reasons:
Theron Becker 417-597-3688.

EMD students are to observe only without any patient contact or skills.
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