(a) While engaged in a course of training or continuing education approved by the board within a medical care facility, a student or emergency medical service provider engaged in such training or continuing education shall be under the supervision of a physician or a professional nurse. While engaged in training or continuing education in emergency or nonemergency transportation outside a medical care facility, a student or emergency medical service provider shall be under the direct supervision of an emergency medical service provider who is at the minimum certified to provide the level of care for which the student is seeking certification or the emergency medical service provider receiving the training is certified or shall be under the direct supervision of a physician or a professional nurse.

(b) Nothing in the provisions of article 61 of chapter 65 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, and amendments thereto, shall be construed to preclude the provision of authorized activities by students enrolled in a training program while engaged in such program.