Our Philosophy

Our staff and faculty believe that the provision of quality pre-hospital care is as much an art as it is a science.  To that end, we will provide a wealth of educational opportunities and role models to help our students gain the requisite knowledge, skills, and attitudes that the field of emergency care demands.

We believe that the safety of the general public depends on the competence of all health care providers.  Emergency medical services clinicians are tasked with the great responsibility of making life saving decisions quickly, many times with incomplete information or on chaotic scenes. Since emergencies often occur in sub-optimal conditions students must not only possess excellent knowledge and job-oriented skills but must also possess a capacity for problem solving and the ability to manage ambiguity in situations dissimilar from those presented in the “standard” training environment.  We endeavor to go beyond the “bare minimum” training  other institutions offer by employing state of the art simulators, life-like mock patient care scenarios with realistic injury simulations, and by providing practical exercises led by instructors with extensive real world experience and a passion for teaching others.

We also believe that an enjoyable learning environment is a more productive learning environment.  To that end, we will strive to create a sense of community in the classroom.  Students should feel welcome and connected with their classmates and their instructor.  We also strive to ensure that education is a two-way, interactive process as each member of our instructor team, each student, and each organization represented brings a rich and varied amount of experience with them to our courses.  We will also be accountable to one another, to our students, and to the community at large by adhering to EMS and educational industry standards, and by providing timely, clinically appropriate, non-biased content in our educational endeavors.