(a) The board may authorize a total of thirty (30) EMT/AEMT training centers operated by ambulance services licensed in this state.
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Terms Used In Tennessee Code 68-140-331

  • Ambulance: means any privately or publicly owned land or air vehicle that is especially designed, constructed or modified and equipped and is intended to be used for and is maintained or operated for transportation upon the streets, highways or airways in this state for persons who are sick, injured, wounded, otherwise incapacitated, helpless, or in need of medical care. See Tennessee Code 68-140-302
  • Ambulance service: means the principal use of any privately or publicly owned ambulance for the transportation of injured or infirm persons. See Tennessee Code 68-140-302
  • Board: means the Tennessee emergency medical services board. See Tennessee Code 68-140-302
  • Department: means the department of health. See Tennessee Code 68-140-302
  • Highway: includes public bridges and may be held equivalent to the words "county way" "county road" or "state road". See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Practice: means the exercise of principles and skills for effective emergency medical care under medical direction recognized as acts and responsibilities within the discipline of emergency medical services. See Tennessee Code 68-140-302
  • Service: means the provision of organized response by ambulances or emergency response vehicles, or the provision of emergency care on an organized basis. See Tennessee Code 68-140-302
  • State: means the state of Tennessee. See Tennessee Code 68-140-302
  • United States: includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Year: means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
(b) In order to be certified by the board pursuant to § 68-140-304(13), a training program offered by an EMT/AEMT training center must follow the National EMS Scope of Practice Model for Emergency Medical Service Personnel as promulgated by the United States department of transportation, national highway traffic safety administration. Ambulance services licensed in this state may establish an EMT/AEMT training program. The ambulance service must:

(1) Have an instructor coordinator approved by the division of emergency medical services who serves as the training coordinator or lead instructor for the ambulance service; and
(2) Charge a special enrollment fee of one hundred seventy-five dollars ($175) to each student to be paid directly to the division of emergency medical services to be allocated to the general fund.
(c)

(1) A training program offered by an EMT/AEMT training center must not offer training to more than three (3) classes of students per year, per type of class.
(2) A training program offered by an EMT/AEMT training center must not have more than twenty (20) total students per class.
(d) A training program offered by an EMT/AEMT training center may utilize online or virtual interactive training for didactic instruction subject to the same rules and regulations for online and virtual interactive training provided by accredited EMS education institutions.
(e) The general assembly urges ambulance services operating EMT/AEMT training centers in accordance with this section and the Tennessee board of regents to develop partnerships as practicable to increase the capacity of this state to prepare EMTs, AEMTs, and paramedics.
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