Degrees

EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES CONCENTRATION
Associate in Applied Science Degree

• Objectives
• Degree Information
• Core Curriculum Requirements for Associate Degree

Objectives:

1. To prepare EMS-certified staff members to assume higher levels of responsibility and advance professionally within the health care industry.
2. To bring EMS students to a more sophisticated understanding of personal, social, and cultural development.
3. To provide instruction and practice in oral, written, and electronic communications as these relate to professional performance.
4. To broaden students’ understanding of questions of conscience and increase their sensitivity to diversity through focused study of philosophy and literature.
5. To facilitate personal growth and understanding of relevant medical data by means of mandated self-development coursework

Degree Information

The Emergency Medical Services Concentration combines the College’s paramedic training program with core curriculum and advanced college coursework. 

Core Curriculum Requirements for
Associate Degree

The College awards 32 credits to those degree-seeking students who have successfully completed all 1035 hours of the paramedic program and have passed the Pennsylvania Department of Health Paramedic Certification Examination (see the Continuing Education link). The 33 additional hours such students need to earn their associate in applied science degrees are distributed among the following courses:

*Developmental courses may be required as prerequisites

** Recommended Social Science Electives:
Global History
Introduction to Sociology
Adulthood and Aging