Emergency care instructor

Short description: Medical education occupation

Emergency care instructor

An emergency care instructor teaches the use of a defibrillator

Occupation

Occupation type

| profession

Activity sectors

| Emergency care
Description
Competencies| training skills, patience

Education required

| certificate of instructor course
(+ other education, required for starting this course)

Fields of
employment

| Emergency care courses

An emergency care instructor is a person who provides training in emergency care to civilians or military personnel. In order to qualify, a person must undergo appropriate courses, and have a certification level not lower (usually at least one level higher) than that to be taught.[1] Often, experience with the provision of such care is required. If these requirements are met, the applicant will receive a certificate after completing training and fulfilling possible additional conditions.

Typically, upon certification it is necessary to hold a certain number of classes under the supervision of other instructors, and only after that may a new instructor teach courses on their own. The certificate must be renewed periodically.[2]

Many first aid and medical care courses exist. They differ by:

* the level of care (cardiopulmonary resuscitation, first aid for bleeding, help for children, etc.);
* the minimum educational / professional level of students (persons without any prior medical training, persons with the qualification of first responder, EMT's of different levels, nurses, doctors);
* the specific circumstances in which care is provided (wilderness emergency medical training, tactical medical training, etc.)

## See also

* List of emergency medicine courses

## References

1. ↑ www.naemt.org Become a NAEMT instructor.
2. ↑ Emergency First Response Instructor Course

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