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GeorgiaEMSAcademy.com currently offers one service, which is to provide 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).
If you are an agency or department,
click here
to see our agency page.
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, 2010 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
It’s Inexpensive
Compared to the cost of many online or traditional EMS continuing education courses,
GeorgiaEMSAcademy.com is cheap. For
$75, you can get all the continuing education you need at one place for a great
price. GeorgiaEMSAcademy.com also offers flexible payment options, including
It’s Approved Education
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 17 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
(excluding BCLS and ACLS). Additionally,
the material was evaluated by the Georgia Firefighter Training and Standards Council
who will allow you to apply up to 24 hours that you earn here towards your 24 hour
Annual Recertification Requirement (all 6 hours of the supplemental component and
and up to 19 hours of non-medical training for Firefighters and Airport Firefighters). Long story short, get all 40 hours required
by the State of Georgia to renew your EMS license and as an added bonus apply 24
of those hours toward your annual Firefighter recertification for this year..
Click Here to download a copy of the approval form issued by the SOEMS.
Use Only What You Need
Already have some courses under your belt?
No problem. You can use GeorgiaEMSAcademy.com
to complete only what you require to meet the 40-hour continuing education requirement. After you successfully complete each
course, your transcript will reflect those changes.
No waiting around for a certificate, proof of successful completion of a
course is only a mouse click away.
How National Registry Looks At GeorgiaEMSAcademy.com
Despite the fact that you do not need
to maintain your National Registry certification to maintain your Georgia EMS license,
some Georgia EMS personnel will wish to re-register their certificate year
after year. The National Registry of EMT's re-registration procedures (for
all levels, EMT-B, EMT-I,
and Paramedic) require 72 hours of training in addition to CPR and ACLS. The requirements are split into two parts. Section 1A wants documentation
of a State Approved EMS Refresher Course and Section 1B wants documentation of continuing
education. There are three EMS refresher courses approved by the State (EMT-B,
EMT-I, and Paramedic). The number of hours for each EMS refresher course
depends on level of training (24, 36, and 48 for EMT-B, EMT-I, and Paramedic respectively).
National Registry will only accept a State or CECBEMS Approved EMS refresher course with a
maximum of 10 hours taught online. The continuing education requirement differs
or each level of training (48 hours, 36 hours, and 24 hours for EMT-B, EMT-I, and
Paramedic respectively) and can only be met partly online (National Registry considers
material presented
in a non-traditional manner 'Distributed Education'). GeorgiaEMSAcademy.com is considered by the
National Registry of EMT’s to be a form of distributive education. The GeorgiaEMSAcademy.com
curriculum was not submitted to CECBEMS, however, since the curriculum was approved
by the State of Georgia, National Registry classifies the material as distributive
education. In the eyes of National
Registry, the hours you earn here can only be used as distributed education, which
translates to:
- EMT-Basic can apply
up to 24 hours to the re-registration of his/her National Registry certification
- EMT-Intermediate (85)
can apply up to 16 hours to the re-registration of his/her National Registry certification
- Paramedics can apply
up to 12 hours to the re-registration of his/her National Registry certification
Transcript
As soon as you complete a course (by taking
the accompanying test), your transcript is updated.
When you log in, you can view or print your transcript at any time.
It’s Easy To Use
Every effort was made to make sure the site
is easy to navigate and use all of the features.
Log in only once and add to a discussion board or other feature.
Easily Manage Your Time
The courses are broken into 27 small easily digestible tutorials that will allow
you to make learning a daily, weekly, or monthly process; how you manage your time
is completely up to you! Once inside,
you will find that the site is extremely easy to navigate (to the point that the
instructions included in the site are almost unnecessary).
The system was designed for you to come back to when you get time
and pick up exactly where you left off by only displaying courses and tests you
have NOT completed (no looking at the same material or passing the same test
twice). Basically, if you start today
and are not able to come back to the site for 6 months, you can easily just pick
up where you left off. And since it
is so easy to use, you won’t have a hard time figuring out what to do when you come
back to the site at a later time.
Access To The Instructor
You can ask a question on a discussion board or email the Instructor at any time. You can expect a response within 48
hours.
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