Emergency Medical Services
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RCC provides realistic hands-on training which prepares students for both national certification and Oregon licensure testing, and more importantly, helps them to be successful in EMS. Students are routinely presented with challenging scenarios using manikins or live actors, and they learn how to provide excellent medical care using state-of-the-art EMS equipment.
Our highly experienced EMS faculty stay current in EMS best practices and training to ensure excellent instruction. Partnerships with area hospitals and ambulance services provide outstanding clinical opportunities for students to observe and participate in actual emergency care.
What is EMS?
An overview of the industry by the National Association of EMTs.
EMT or Paramedic: Which job is right for you?
EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIAN (EMT)
An EMT cares for patients at the scene and while taking patients by ambulance to a hospital. An EMT has the emergency skills to assess a patient's condition and manage respiratory, cardiac, and trauma emergencies. Visit our EMT Planning Tool resource to better prepare for the fall 2021 and Winter 2022 EMT courses.
The EMT application for 2020/2021 courses is closed.
ADVANCED EMT (AEMT) / OREGON EMT INTERMEDIATE (EMT-I)
The application for the 2020/2021 AEMT/EMT-Intermediate is closed.
PARAMEDIC
The 2020-21 Paramedic Application is closed! Paramedics provide more extensive care than EMTs. In addition to carrying out the procedures that EMTs use, paramedics can start IV’s, give numerous medications, interpret electrocardiograms (ECGs), and use other monitors and complex equipment. learn more...
Important Information for the Paramedic Program
ACCREDITATION DETAILS
The RCC Paramedicine program holds both state and national accreditation. See accreditation and outcomes details.
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