• Programmatic Commitment

  This program is very time-intensive. Students may be able to complete this program while working full time. However, it is advised to plan far ahead in order to ensure you have enough time to complete all of the required tasks of the program. The entire degree program is 74 credit hours. Most students are eligible to sit for the National Registry exams after completing around 47 credit hours of core course work. The core paramedic courses can be completed in as little as 16 months.

• Clinical Rotations

  OSU-OKC has clinical contracts with many agencies across the state. We do shifts with hospitals, fire departments, EMS agencies, OSU football games, and other facilities here on our campus. If you are a distance learner, contact us to see if we have agreements with agencies in your area. If we do not, just let us know what agencies you would like to work with and we can get an agreement set up.

   

  During clinicals, the Clinical Coordinator is available 24/7 to assist students with clinical concerns. Many of the hospital clinicals will have an OSU-OKC clinical instructor available to them during the entire shift.

   

  OSU-OKC uses Fisdap to schedule all clinical (hospital) and field (shifts). Fisdap is an online scheduling tool that each student is required to purchase prior to the start of class. All clinical and field shifts are scheduled by week 3 of the semester. Students are able to select the shifts that best meet their own personal or work schedules.

   

  A complete listing of our clinical requirements are listed in the enrollment packet. 

   

  Clinical Hours Breakdown

• EMT Certification Requirement

  In order to become a paramedic, you must first be a certified and licensed EMT. However, there is a small grace period where you can enter the paramedic program even though you have not yet passed your NREMT exam. Students may enter Paramedic Care 1 with successful completion of an EMT program but do not yet have their EMT certification. In this case, the student must successfully obtain their EMT certification in order to successful pass and complete Paramedic Care 1.

   

  Note: If you have been previously certified as an EMT, please contact the National Registry of EMTs for information on becoming recertified.

   

  Learn more about the OSU-OKC EMT Training Course

• Advanced Placement for Working Professionals

  Interested applicants that are already a nurse, respiratory therapist, physician, EMT-I, AEMT, or military medic, may request advanced placement within the program. These requests are reviewed on a case-by-case basis by the program director.

 

Embedded Certificate

Emergency Medical Technician Certificate Degree Sheet

 

Accreditation

The OSU-OKC Paramedicine program is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs upon the recommendation of the Committee on Accreditation of Educational Programs for the Emergency Medical Services Professions (CoAEMSP). 

 

For more information, contact:

Maribeth Dawson
Academic Advisor

maribeth.dawson@okstate.edu

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