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AEMT, or Emergency Medical Technician Advanced, is a new licensure level for EMTs in the US defined in the NREMT's document "National Scope of Practice Model" <ref>http://www.nremt.org/nremt/about/scopeOfPractice.asp</ref>. EMT Intermediate 85 and 99 licenses will be migrated to the new AEMT level. The new AEMT will be phased in beginning in 2012. |
AEMT, or Emergency Medical Technician Advanced, is a new licensure level for EMTs in the US defined in the NREMT's document "National Scope of Practice Model" <ref>http://www.nremt.org/nremt/about/scopeOfPractice.asp</ref>. EMT Intermediate 85 and 99 licenses will be migrated to the new AEMT level. The new AEMT will be phased in beginning in 2012. The AEMT level was created as an attempt to unify the EMT Intermediate licensure levels (there are more types of EMT-I in the US than there are states), as well as provide a logical education progression, as defined in the NREMT's "Education Agenda For The Future: A Systems Approach" <ref>http://www.nremt.org/nremt/about/emsAgendaEducation.asp</ref>. |
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The AEMT level was created as an attempt to unify the EMT Intermediate licensure levels (there are more types of EMT-I in the US than there are states), as well as provide a logical education progression, as defined in the NREMT's "Education Agenda For The Future: A Systems Approach" <ref>http://www.nremt.org/nremt/about/emsAgendaEducation.asp</ref>. |
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AEMT, or Emergency Medical Technician Advanced, is a new licensure level for EMTs in the US defined in the NREMT's document "National Scope of Practice Model" [1]. EMT Intermediate 85 and 99 licenses will be migrated to the new AEMT level. The new AEMT will be phased in beginning in 2012. The AEMT level was created as an attempt to unify the EMT Intermediate licensure levels (there are more types of EMT-I in the US than there are states), as well as provide a logical education progression, as defined in the NREMT's "Education Agenda For The Future: A Systems Approach" [2].