Paramedic

Minimum Expectations Statement
The 2023 CAAHEP Standards and Guidelines for the Accreditation of Educational Programs in the Emergency Medical Services Professions, which went into effect on January 1, 2024, minimum expectations statement:

“To prepare Paramedics who are competent in the cognitive (knowledge), psychomotor (skills), and affective (behavior) learning domains to enter the profession.”  

Accreditation
First Coast Technical College’s Paramedic Program is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs (caahep.org) upon the recommendation of the Committee on Accreditation of Educational Programs for the Emergency Medical Services Professions (CoAEMSP).

The CoAEMSP Quality Improvement (QI) subcommittee has reviewed the 2024 Annual Report and below you will find the Outcomes submitted by the program.

Attrition: 21.4%
Retention: 78.6%
National Registry/State Pass Rate: 86.4%
Positive (Job) Placement rate: 100%

During the August 2021 CoAEMSP Board of Directors meeting, the Board voted to waive minimum outcomes performance thresholds for the 2020 and 2021 Annual Report as they acknowledged the pandemic’s disruptive effect on all Paramedic programs. Therefore, the inability to meet any of the three identified outcomes on the 2020 or 2021 Annual Report will not be a consideration when evaluating a program’s performance.

As a reminder the minimum outcome performance threshold established by the CoAEMSP Board of Directors is 70% for National Registry or State Written Exam, Retention, and Positive Placement. When evaluating a program’s outcomes performance, three years of consecutive data (2022, 2023, and 2024) will be considered.

 CoAEMSP Policy IV.D.1. & 2. Maintaining Accreditation – Annual Report states

1. “All programs (accredited and LoR) must publish their latest annual outcomes results for the National Registry or State Written Exam, Retention, and Positive Job Placement on the Paramedic program’s homepage of their website.”
2. “At all times, the published results must be consistent with and verifiable by the latest Annual Report of the program.

For the full policy, please see the CoAEMSP Policy Manual at https://coaemsp.org/policies-procedures.

• Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs
  25400 US Highway 19 N., Suite 158, Clearwater, FL 33763
  (727) 210-2350  www.caahep.org

To contact CoAEMSP: 8301 Lakeview Parkway, Suite 111-312, Rowlett, TX 75088 (214) 703-8445 FAX (214) 703-8992 www.coaempsp.org.