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We are offering the EMT-B course as an on-line course. The state Bureau of EMS has given us the okay several semesters ago to run it as a trial or pilot project. It has been so successful that now it is offered as a regular EMT-B course. So instead of some of those long four hour class sessions, all the textbook material, lectures, and quizzes will be done over the internet. There will be a series of Saturdays in which we will meet to go through the skills, and practical part of the class. The module exams will be done on these Saturdays also.
If you talk to anyone about taking the EMT course, and you think they would do well in such a self-motivating class, we would appreciate it if you would mention it to them.
The web based EMT course begins when the college semester begins. If you haven't heard from your instructor, contact him at cmittler@stlcc.edu
Saturday classes will meet on the Forest Park campus, room G121 from 9 to 5.
A few days before the semester starts, your instructor will send you an email with information about getting into the blackboard program on the college website, where the course is located. If the school doesn't have your current email address, go to the college website, go into banner, and add it under the personal information.
There will be sign up sheets available in the classroom for you to schedule your clinicals and ride-alongs after we have completed the airway material and CPR, and you have turned in your shot records, completed the HIPAA training, and sexual harassment tutorial.
You have the opportunity to do your clinicals this semester at several different hospitals:
Forest Park Medical Center - 768-3019
6150 Oakland Avenue
St. Louis MO 63110
St. Mary's Health Center - 768-8360
6420 Clayton Road
Richmond Heights MO 63117
St. Alexius Hospital - 865-7955
3933 South Broadway
St. Louis MO 63118
SLU Hospital
3635 Vista
St. Louis, MO
Des Peres hospital
2345 Dougherty Ferry Road at 270
Des Peres, MO
The hospital has an interesting interactive webpage, that includes identifying symptoms interactively, and a map that will give you directions to the hospital from your place.
Ambulance ride-alongs - You have several choices of ambulance ride-alongs. You may do your shift at:
Be sure to read over the requirements that each ambulance district has for ride-alongs before you sign up, and then review them again before going on your ride-along. Ambulance districts are particular about when you come, how you look, and what you are able to do.