Continuing Education for EMS Certified Personnel

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CE or not?
EMS rules have made CE accrual one of the options for renewal, NOT a requirement for maintaining your certification. If you choose to renew your certificate by completing CE hours, the hours you gain must be DSHS-approved and meet minimum content areas.

CE hours can be completed anytime during your four-year certification period. We recommend your CE accrual be consistent with your employer QI/QA plan.

Reporting CE hours
Submitting your two-year CE report is NO LONGER a requirement for maintaining your certification, and you are not required to submit a CE report form for recertification purposes. Renewing your four-year certification requires that you submit a recertification/relicensing application and fee.

Where and how?
EMS rules allow you several methods to accrue CE hours. All methods must have prior DSHS approval.

• Ongoing CE offerings provided by department-approved programs. Contact your local DSHS field office for area courses and clinical instruction information.
• National/standardized training courses. See CE breakdown chart.
• Independent study. CE articles in professional journals, interactive computer programs.
• Authorship. Development and publication of a manuscript in a periodical.
• Academic courses.
• Instruction of approved initial training and CE courses can be counted as CE accrual. For more information, see our Rules/Policies page.
• Policy *-A: CE approved by other accrediting agencies

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More on Continuing Education
Read §157.38 Continuing Education
DSHS Audio-Visual Lending Library
EMS Media Catalog (Publication #4-23) (284K PDF, Viewing Information)

Last Updated May 8, 2007