Certificate in Emergency Medical Technician (EMT)

Course Overview

What you will learn

• Performing a complete primary and secondary systematic patient assessment.
• Management of common presentations, including fractures, bleeding, and shock.
• Recognize and respond to medical emergencies like respiratory distress or cardiac arrest.
• Applying safe patient handling, transport techniques, and immobilization.
• Maintaining the accurate pre-hospital care documentation as well as handover.

Curriculum

Course outline

Module 1 — Patient assessment

Scene size up, vital signs, primary signs for the secondary stick.

Module 2 — Trauma management

Fracture splinting, bleeding control, shock management and spinal precautions.

Module 3 — Medical emergencies

Respiratory, cardiac, diabetic and neurological emergencies.

Module 4 — Transport & handover

Immobilization Services, Safe lifting, ambulance operations plus structured handovers

Assessment & certification

Proper skill station plus written examinations. Successful candidates thus receive a DIMS certificate that’s QR verified.