Firefighter / Emergency Medical Technician-Combined - Career Certificate

Effective February 2022:

        Pasco-Hernando State College is committed to offering top-notch programs to prepare our students for the workforce. Our combined Firefighter/EMT program, will not be enrolling new students at this time.

       As an option, we will continue to offer the Firefighter program and EMT programs separately. We will update you as soon we reopen the combined program for enrollment! Please reach out to an advisor for more information.

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The purpose of this program is to provide the necessary training required for students to become certified firefighters as well as licensed Emergency Medical Technicians. It is not intended for those who are currently certified/licensed as either firefighters or EMTs. Students wishing to add an additional certification to an existing credential must enroll in either the Firefighter program or the Emergency Medical Technician program.

This program offers a sequence of courses that provides coherent and rigorous content aligned with challenging academic standards and relevant technical knowledge and skills needed to prepare for further education and careers in the Law, Public Safety and Security and Health Science career clusters; provides technical skill proficiency, and includes competency-based applied learning that contributes to the academic knowledge, higher-order reasoning and problem-solving skills, work attitudes, general employability skills, technical skills, and occupation-specific skills.

VA funding approved effective August 16, 2021.

Program Code: CC-FEMT

FFP 0030Firefighter Part I

6.37 tech. cr.

FFP 0031Firefighter Part II

10.03 tech. cr.

EMS 0110Emergency Medical Technician

10 tech. cr. (300 clock hours)

Total Credit Hours: 26.40