GeorgiaEMSAcademy.com provides you with quality continuing education provided to you in an easy to use and interesting format that you can access anytime, 24/7. The lectures are presented to you in a tutorial format that attempts to present the material in a variety of formats (text, games, questions, interactions, animations, etc.). You will learn by reading, watching, and doing (some of the pages look more like video games than they do tutorials). The material was carefully chosen or written by the Lead Instructor with the intention of providing you with quality, usable information that you can take back to your job and provide better patient care (or the same patient care, but with less stress).
Why Would I Need Continuing Education?
First and foremost, continuing education improves patient care. The more you know, the better you perform. Secondly, 40 hours of continuing education is mandated by the Georgia State Office of EMS & Trauma every 24 months. The continuing education must be approved by the State Office of EMS & Trauma and include 8 hours of pediatrics, 4 hours of trauma, and 4 hours of cardiology. The 40 hours of continuing education is different from EMS refresher courses (either 24, 36, or 48) that are approved by the State in that continuing education courses can teach a variety of different types of content (so long as the curriculum is approved), whereas a refresher course must follow a strict curriculum (authored by the State Office of EMS). So who has to take a refresher course? EMS students who have failed a National Registry Exam 3 times or EMS personnel who would like to maintain their National Registry certification (this comes from the National Registry of EMT's). GeorgiaEMSAcademy.com was designed especially for those EMS personnel who want to maintain their Georgia EMS License. The curriculum has all the content you need and will provide you with a transcript which you can provide the State should you be audited by the Georgia State Office of EMS. The Georgia State Office of EMS & Trauma randomly audits 10% of all EMS personnel who renew their Georgia EMS License.
Time Is On Your Side
By enrolling today, you will have access to all of the great material provided on this site until December 31, 2014 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
It's Inexpensive
$40 for up to 60 hours
It's Approved
The curriculum meets the requirements set forth by the Georgia State Office of EMS in EMS Rules and Regulations, Chapter 290-5-30-.13 where it specifies 4 hours of content in each of two content areas: Cardiology and Trauma and 8 hours in Pediatrics (covered in 8 of the 20 courses). It also meets the requirements set forth in R-T-05B Assignment of Continuing Education Hours Guidelines for Distributed Education for the purpose of assigning hours of credit for each course. Basically, the material was written to satisfy the entire 40-hour continuing education requirement.