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EMD Instructor National Certification
Course Purpose
The purpose of this course is to provide the EMD instructor candidate with the knowledge and skills necessary to certify others with a basic emergency medical dispatching (EMD) curriculum.
NOTE: This is a train-the-trainer course, not a basic certification course. Instructor candidates should be formerly trained or experienced at the basic level of emergency communications. The course is not to teach the instructor candidate basic call-handling techniques. EMD Instructor candidates will learn methods of instruction rather than learning the basics of emergency medical dispatching (EMD).
National EMD Standards
This course meets the following NHTSA and ASTM national standards for emergency medical instructors and emergency medical dispatchers.
- NHTSA Highway Safety Services Standard 11 (Highway Safety Act of 1967)
- ASTM Standards:
- 1258: EMD Course Content
- 1552: EMD and EMD Instructor Criteria
- 1560: EMD Management and Quality Assurance
Student Performance Objectives
By the end of this course, the instructor candidate will be able to:
- Understand the principles of adult learning
- Demonstrate the ability to make a professional presentation
- Demonstrate the ability to make a presentation from a PowerPoint
- Understand and be able to demonstrate classroom management
- Understand how to request training materials from NECI
- Understand how to certify others as an EMD