The next step in your EMT training. Not ready to be a paramedic? Attend AEMT and expand your scope of practice as an Advanced EMT.
What is Advanced Emergency Medical Technician?
The primary focus of the Advanced Emergency Medical Technician is to provide basic and limited advanced emergency medical care and transportation for critical and emergent patients who access the emergency medical system. This individual possesses the basic knowledge and skills necessary to provide patient care and transportation. Advanced Emergency Medical Technicians function as part of a comprehensive EMS response, under medical oversight. Advanced Emergency Medical Technicians perform interventions with the basic and advanced equipment typically found on an ambulance. The Advanced Emergency Medical Technician is a link from the scene to the emergency health care system. [From: National EMS Scope of Practice Model]
Note: This information is based on the National Average for Emergency Medical Technicians. Advanced EMT averages may differ.
Getting Started
Prerequisites
Any advisor can register you as long as you are a certified KY EMT Basic.
What are my degree, diploma, and certificate options
The catalog describes the course requirements for completing the credential. Students are required to schedule an appointment with their assigned academic advisor to ensure achievement of their academic goals.
How Do I Pay For This?
What Else Do I Need to Know?
Course Content/Lab Dates
Course content is available online with mandatory in-person labs. The lab days depend on your campus, and attendance is mandatory.
- Danville Campus: Hybrid with Monday skills 5:00 - 10:00 p.m.
- Lawrenceburg Campus: Hybrid with Tuesday skills 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.
- Winchester Campus: Hybrid with Wednesday skills 5:00 - 10:00 p.m.
- Leestown Campus: Hybrid with skills 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.
All online classroom content/homework is due each Monday night. Online lectures are recorded and count toward a grade.
We believe in clinical practice to be the highest level of training for an AEMT possible. All AEMT programs must complete the AEMT clinical requirements at an approved BCTC clinical site and are scheduled by the student through Platinum Planner once the clinical coordinator clears them.
- 180 hours of ride time with an approved EMS agency
- 7 ER shifts
- 1 ICU
- 1 RESP
- 1 OB
Length of the Program
This program is 16 weeks. Danville, Lawrenceburg, and Winchester have an online component with in-person skills training.
