USC School of Medicine Greenville

EMT Training and Certification
Ride into real-world health crises as an emergency medical technician. The USC School of Medicine Greenville was the first school in the country to integrate EMT training and certification into its first-year medical curriculum.

Your EMT Experience
EMT training takes you behind the scenes to get a first-hand look at many of the challenges and issues in health care delivery. Seeing patients in their homes provides you with valuable insight about their care needs that you can’t learn from a hospital setting alone.

Become immersed in the clinical environment right after orientation. Get to know your classmates before you dive into the traditional curriculum.

Once certified, you will work as an EMT for 12 hours per month, with teams on ambulances and in the emergency department. EMT service will help build your skills in communication, focused patient assessment, documentation and patient safety. And you’ll link classroom learning to real-world clinical settings.

Throughout the program, you will keep patient logs and reflect on your experiences and how they relate to your integrated practice of medicine modules. Your EMT experiences may also inspire patient-centered research projects.

EMT training provides students with basic clinical skills but also teaches them how to work as part of a healthcare team and how to communicate in tense situations.