EMT Training in California; Working in New Mexico

[Daniel0703]

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I am graduating this May with my bachelors degree and have hopes of attending PA School. To diversify my clinical experience I wanted to work as an EMT. The program here in New Mexico is a semester long and I have found a program at UCLA that accomplishes the training in a month. I was wondering if the training and certification is transferrable to New Mexico so that I can work there?

 

[Deranged Medic]

You will need to contact New Mexico's Department of EMS (or whoever else runs the EMS certifications for New Mexico) to see if they grant reciprocity (ability to transfer certification) from California.

 

[Deranged Medic]

Here is the reciprocity forms for New Mexico, but they are labeled as the 2013 forms: http://archive.nmems.org/reciprocity.shtml

It would probably be best to just contact them directly: http://archive.nmems.org/contact_us.shtml

 

[Daniel0703]

Thank you,
I went ahead an talked with them.

 

[RoadNurse33]

UCLA course will be fine since it is for your National Registry EMT cert. Make sure you take the AHA-BLS for Health Care Providers course.

And here's the link for the application and instructions for reciprocity in New Mexico. http://archive.nmems.org/documents/ReciprocityInfo-FR-Basic-Intermediate.pdf

Good luck.