Alaska Administrative Code › Title 7 - Health and Social Services › Part 2 - Public Health › Chapter 26 - Emergency Medical Services › Article 1 - Emergency Medical Technicians, Emergency Medical Technician Instructors, Paramedic Course Coordinators › 7 AAC 26.172 - Paramedic training courses

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) An individual
				  or organization may apply for approval of paramedic training courses within the
				  state. An individual or organization applying for approval of a paramedic
				  training course shall
(1) apply to the
				  department for course approval at least 120 days before the first day of the
				  class; a request for course approval must be made on a form provided by the
				  department, and must include prospective class and laboratory schedules and
				  requirements for clinical and field internship rotations;
(2) have a course coordinator certified in
				  accordance with
				  7 AAC 26.174 who agrees to fulfill the responsibilities
				  set out in
				  7 AAC 26.176;
(3) agree to use a curriculum approved by the
				  department that meets or exceeds apphcable objectives set out in the United
				  States Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety
				  Administration's
National Emergency Medical Services Education
				  Standards
, 2021, adopted by reference in
				  7 AAC 26.050(1)(A), and that includes
(A) a plan for and presentation of didactic
				  instruction in accordance with accrediting body standards;
(B) a plan for and provision of clinical
				  instruction in accordance with accrediting body standards; and
(C) a plan for a field internship in
				  accordance with accrediting body standards;
(4) provide evidence that sufficient medical
				  and educational equipment, in rehable working condition, and other appropriate
				  instructional materials will be available to meet the training needs of the
				  paramedic training course;
(5) have
				  a written agreement with a physician who meets the qualifications for a
				  paramedic course medical director and agrees to fulfill the responsibilities
				  set out in
				  7 AAC 26.662(b);
(6) have written agreements with institutions
				  and agencies that are to provide clinical experience to paramedic students;
				  under an agreement, an institution or agency must agree to
(A) provide access to patients, in sufficient
				  numbers and distributed by age and sex, who present common problems encountered
				  in the delivery of advanced life support emergency patient care;
(B) assign students to sufficient clinical
				  settings, including the operating room, recovery room, obstetrics, pediatrics,
				  intensive care unit, psychiatric, respiratory therapy, coronary care unit, and
				  the emergency department, in order to provide students with access to patients,
				  in sufficient numbers and distributed by age and sex, who present common
				  problems in the delivery of advanced life support pre-hospital emergency
				  patient care; and
(C) ensure that
				  the students are supervised by course instructors or clinical hospital
				  personnel, such as physician assistants, nurses, and physicians;
(7) have written agreements with
				  one or more advanced life support emergency medical services agencies that have
				  a sufficient call volume to provide students with access to patients,
				  distributed by age and sex, who present common problems in the delivery of
				  advanced life support pre-hospital emergency patient care; under an agreement,
				  an agency must
(A) provide evidence that
				  adequate personnel resources exist within the EMS system so that the assigned
				  student is never used as a substitute for EMS system personnel or as a required
				  team member;
(B) ensure that the
				  student is under the direct supervision of a physician or paramedic, licensed
				  or certified in the state where the internship takes place, who has been
				  designated the responsibility of supervision by the course medical
				  director;
(C) ensure that the
				  student is assigned to a unit that has the capability of voice communications
				  with on-line medical direction and that carries equipment and medications
				  necessary for advanced life support;
(D) ensure that each student's performance is
				  evaluated by the student's preceptor at the end of each shift and that the
				  evaluation findings are documented on a form approved by the department and
				  provided to the student at the end of each shift and to the paramedic course
				  coordinator at least once per week; and
(E) keep records concerning the types and
				  numbers of emergency medical care procedures performed and whether each
				  emergency medical procedure was performed competently;
(8) agree to limit enrollment to an
				  individual who is currently
(A) certified by
				  the department as an EMT-I, EMT-II, EMT-III, or AEMT; or
(B) certified by the National Registry of
				  Emergency Medical Technicians (NREMT) as an EMT or AEMT;
(9) agree to ensure that students are clearly
				  identified, whenever they are in clinical instruction and field settings, by
				  name plate, uniform, or other apparent means to distinguish them from licensed
				  paramedics, other health professionals, workers, and students;
(10) agree to provide a plan to verify the
				  student's achievement of objectives stated in the didactic instruction,
				  clinical instruction, and field internship portions of the paramedic
				  curriculum;
(11) agree to provide
				  graduates of the training course with evidence of successful course completion
				  signed by the course medical director and the paramedic course
				  coordinator;
(12) provide an
				  attendance policy that delineates the number of hours of didactic instruction
				  that can be missed by a student and that ensures that appropriate remediation
				  occurs after any excused absences; and
(13) agree to maintain during the course, and
				  make accessible to the department within two working days after receipt of a
				  written request from the department, the records listed in
				  7 AAC 26.176(a)(9).