What does it take to be an EMS educator? State to state, the requirements differ. Most require the 40-hour instructor course. There are very good versions of this course (I recommend taking a NAEMSE instructor course: www.naemse.org). Unfortunately, the NEEMSE course is the exception to the rule in my experience. Most instructor courses are taught by people who have very little--if any--experience teaching. Furthermore, in order to be eligible to teach an instructor course, you only need to have completed an instructor course yourself. Applying this logic broadly, you'd only have to complete the third grade in order to teach third grade!! But, no matter; for it is not the instructor course that makes the instructor. In fact, the very best EMS instructors succeed in spite of their successful completion of the DOT instructor course.
-Sherm
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