Emergency Medical Services- AAS: Paramedic

(69 total credit hours)

**Pre-Requisites/Co-Requisite**
Certification/Courses	Credits	Grade	Offered
EMS 105 Emergency Medical Technical or KY EMT Certification/National Registry	6		Fall/Spring
AHS 115 Medical Terminology	3		All
BIO 135 Basic Anatomy and Physiology with lab (or BIO 137 and BIO 139)	4		All

**Recommended Semester 1**
Courses	Credits	Grade	Offered
EMS 201Principles of Paramedicine I	6		Fall
EMS 203 Practicum I (Clinical)	1		Fall
EMS 204 Principles Lab I	2		Fall
EMS 205 Principles of Paramedicine III	6		Fall
EMS 207 Principles Lab II	1		Fall

**Recommended Semester 2**
Courses	Credits	Grade	Offered
EMS 202 Principles of Paramedicine II	5		Spring
EMS 206 Practicum II (Clinical)	3		Spring
EMS 2081 Principles of Paramedicine IV – Part 1	4		Spring
EMS 209 Principles Lab III	2		Spring

**Recommended Semester 3**
Courses	Credits	Grade	Offered
EMS 2082 Principles of Paramedicine IV – Part 2	2		Summer
EMS 212 Practicum III-Field	4		Summer
EMS 213 Principles of Paramedicine V	2		Summer

**Recommended Semester 4**
Courses	Credits	Grade	Offered
Digital Literacy - CIT 105 Introduction to Computers or OST 105 Introduction to Office Systems (or Competency demonstrated by exam)*	3		All
ENG 101 Writing I*	3		All
Heritage/Humanities General Education course (rec. PHI 110 Medical Ethics)*	3		All
MAT 151 Intro to Applied Statistics (or other AAS Quantitative Reasoning course)	3		All
Oral Communications General Education course (rec. COM 252 Introduction to Interpersonal Communications)*	3		All
PSY 110 General Psychology *	3		All

Notes

* General Education credits can be taken in any order, but it is recommended that the biology course(s) be taken before or as co-requisites with the first semester of EMS courses.
At least 25 percent of the approved curriculum for any certificate, diploma or degree must be completed at the student’s home college.

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KCTCS Catalog - Emergency Medical Services - Paramedic - AAS