Your site must be recognized as a teaching and testing site and your instructors must be "accredited" by whatever institution is going to sponsor you. The problem will be the MTN - "Military Training Network" - which runs / certifies the courses for BLS / ACLS / etc...
If you utilize the National Registry - your course director will need to be registered at the Registry HQ in Ohio.
The MTN is a recognized teaching and testing entity for these other courses - this then generates a problem because the MTN precludes any charge for becoming certified for these basic courses.
If a University were to come to you...it would have to be independent of the MTN and at your cost.
Also - there are Ambulance rotations that must be accomplished for EMT-P.
As far as Western Carolina, I had the SOMG(A) CSM at my house last Thursday, as we were former teammates, and I asked him about this.
Western Carolina does provide significant credits TOWARDS a BA after the completion of the course - it does not "turn the 18D course into a BA-EMT". They are working towards more recognition for the training provided.
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Primum non Nocere
"I have hung out in dangerous places a lot over the years, from combat zones to biker bars, and it is the weak, the unaware, or those looking for it, that usually find trouble.
Ain't no one getting out of this world alive. All you can do is try to have some choice in the way you go. Prepare yourself (and your affairs), and when your number is up, die on your feet fighting rather than on your knees. And make the SOBs pay dearly."
The Reaper-3 Sep 04
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