Ambulance supplier AMR to supply free EMT coaching for ladies at Miramar School

Ambulance supplier AMR has introduced that it’s offering free emergency medical technician coaching to girls this fall at Miramar School, and it’s providing to rent those that full this system.

As a part of its “Earn Whereas You Be taught” program, AMR will cowl pupil cadets’ tuition and e book prices, and pay them for the hours they attend class, the corporate mentioned Wednesday.

Cadets may also be eligible for dental, medical, imaginative and prescient and 401K advantages.

AMR will rent those that full this system and move a nationwide EMT examination, the corporate mentioned.

Carlos Valdez Acosta-Meza, an AMR operations supervisor, mentioned March is Ladies’s Historical past Month and the correct time to launch the coaching program.

“Ladies play a important function within the discipline of emergency medical providers, together with right here at AMR,” Acosta-Meza mentioned. “This academy will assist put extra girls on a promising and rewarding profession path whereas bolstering the ranks of feminine EMTs and paramedics within the San Diego area.”

Cadets will study numerous EMT expertise, together with driving an ambulance, delivering a child, performing CPR, utilizing an automatic exterior defibrillator and administering an EpiPen, in response to AMR.

When not attending class, cadets will shadow AMR paramedics and EMTs despatched to precise emergencies throughout the county, and be paid for that point as effectively.

Though there have been two different academies over the previous yr, AMR mentioned this would be the first all-female academy it has sponsored.

Ladies wishing to attend the academy might request an utility right here.