Traditional EMT Program
Same destination. A different schedule.
Not everyone can step away from work, family, and everyday life for 17 consecutive days.
For students who need EMT education to fit around the rest of their lives, Pelham offers a traditional evening format.
You get more time between classes.
You do not get a lesser EMT education.
A Schedule Built for Local Students
The Traditional EMT Program meets:
Tuesdays and Thursdays
5:30 PM – 9:30 PM
Plus, three Saturdays scheduled during the course.
The format allows students to continue working and managing other responsibilities while progressing through EMT education over a longer period.
What You Will Learn
Becoming an EMT requires more than memorizing signs, symptoms, and treatment steps.
Students learn how to assess patients, recognize what matters, provide appropriate care, communicate with patients and other responders, move patients safely, and begin putting an entire call together.
Training includes:
The pieces begin separately.
The goal is learning how to put them together.
Time Between Classes Can Be an Advantage
The traditional schedule creates something the accelerated format intentionally does not: time between lessons.
Students can review material, study, practice, ask new questions, and return to the next class ready to build on what they have already learned.
For some students, that rhythm is exactly what they need.
Not Everything Happens in a Classroom
EMTs do not work at desks.
As students develop the knowledge and skills to manage patients, training begins to ask more of them.
Scenarios become less about demonstrating an isolated skill and more about figuring out what needs to happen next.
• Assessment.
• Treatment.
• Communication.
• Movement.
• Reassessment.
• Decision-making.
When appropriate to the course and training objectives, Pelham can extend that education beyond the classroom and into the environments available at Pelham Beechwood.
The environment changes. The responsibility does not.
Clinical Experience
EMT students also complete required clinical experience as part of the program.
Clinical education gives students an opportunity to observe and participate in patient care while beginning to connect what they have learned in class with the realities of EMS.
Pelham will provide students with information regarding clinical requirements and scheduling during the course.
Who Is This Program For?
The Traditional EMT Program may be a good fit if you:
You do not need previous EMS or medical experience to begin.
You need to be ready to learn.
Tuition
$1,500
Textbook purchased separately.
Additional enrollment requirements and course information will be provided before the program begins.
Accelerated or Traditional?
Pelham EMT formats lead toward the same objective.
The difference is how you get there.
17-Day Accelerated EMT
A concentrated schedule for students who can make EMT education their primary focus for 17 consecutive days.
Traditional EMT
An evening schedule that spreads the education over a longer period so students can continue managing work, family, and other responsibilities.
Different schedules. Same expectation when you finish.
Leave Ready to Take the Next Step
The objective is not simply to finish an EMT class.
It is to leave with the knowledge, skills, and judgment necessary to continue toward certification and begin functioning as an EMT.
Learn it. Practice it. Put it together.
Traditional EMT Course Availability
Pelham’s Traditional EMT Program is offered periodically based on local demand and is not part of a fixed recurring schedule.
Classes may be scheduled when there is sufficient local interest or when an agency, fire department, or other organization has a group ready to train.
If no Traditional EMT class is currently scheduled, you can submit your information, and we will contact you when the next course is being planned.
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