What type of continuing education is accepted?
Continuing education programs should include many different learning activities. Topics must be relevant to EMS and/or prehospital care. You must be able to document attendance and participation. A maximum of 25 hours total may be credited for self-study activities through documented continuing education via publications, video and/or Internet training. A maximum of 16 hours may be credited for teaching CPR. The CIC of record teaching an EMT/AEMT course can use the course to complete the “refresher training” requirement for the level of the course once per year. (E.g. teaching EMT-B = 10 Hours, AEMT-I = 14 hrs, etc.) A maximum of 20 hours may be credited for national continuing education programs like PHTLS, BTLS, PALS, ACLS, MALS, Auto Extrication courses, etc. (This over and above hours used for core content) A maximum of 3 hours per year may be credited for any one specific topic.
Continuing education programs should include many different learning activities. Topics must be directly relevant to EMS and/or prehospital care. You must be able to document attendance, participation and content. Continuing education credit can only be received for time the candidate actually participates in the activity. As an example if an 8-hour course ends 2 hours early, the participant can only receive credit for 6 hours. A maximum of 12 hours for “core content” and 24 hours for additional CME hours may be credited for self-study activities through documented continuing education via publications, video and/or Internet training. A maximum of 8 hours may be credited for teaching CPR courses and this can only be used once for each recertification period. A CIC who teaches an original or recertification course can claim the maximum hours for the “core content” area only. National continuing education programs like PHTLS, BTLS, PALS, ACLS, AMLS, SCOPE, PEPP, GEMS, etc. may be used to
