BS in Emergency Medical Services

University of New Mexico

The UNM EMS Academy is home to New Mexico’s only Bachelor of Science program in EMS, and is one of only 13 programs offering a Bachelor’s degree in EMS in the U.S. Offered through the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, our program is one of a very few programs administered through an academic Department of Emergency Medicine. This provides our students exceptional opportunities to be mentored by Emergency Medicine faculty and residents, and to participate in the day-to-day activities of a busy academic medical center.Our curriculum was designed to teach and train paramedic leaders to be better prepared to handle the realities of a new era in prehospital medicine. By the time they leave EMSA, our graduates are excellent clinicians, teachers, researchers and leaders. They have the breadth of knowledge to think independently, and to push the development of EMS. The program prepares students for advanced study many of our graduates go on to obtain advanced degrees in education and science, medicine, physician assistant studies and business.A program that prepares individuals, under the remote supervision of physicians, to recognize, assess, and manage medical emergencies in prehospital settings and to supervise Ambulance personnel. Includes instruction in basic, intermediate, and advanced EMT procedures emergency surgical procedures medical triage rescue operations crisis scene management and personnel supervision equipment operation and maintenance patient stabilization, monitoring, and care drug administration identification and preliminary diagnosis of diseases and injuries communication and computer operations basic anatomy, physiology, pathology, and toxicology and professional standards and regulations.

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