Cal. Code Regs. tit. 22 § 100070

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 25, June 21, 2024

Section 100070 - Teaching Staff

(a) Each EMT training program shall provide for the functions of administrative direction, medical quality coordination, and actual program instruction. Nothing in this section precludes the same individual from being responsible for more than one of the following functions if so qualified by the provisions of this section:

(b) Each EMT training program shall have an approved program director who shall be qualified by education and experience with at least forty (40) hours of documented teaching methodology instruction in areas related to methods, materials, and evaluation of instruction.

(c) Duties of the program director, in coordination with the program clinical coordinator, shall include but not be limited to:

(1) Administering the training program.

(2) Approving course content.

(3) Approving all written examinations and the final skills examination.

(4) Coordinating all clinical and field activities related to the course.

(5) Approving the principal instructor(s) and teaching assistants.

(6) Signing all course completion records.

(7) Assuring that all aspects of the EMT training program are in compliance with this Chapter and other related laws.

(d) Each training program shall have an approved program clinical coordinator who shall be either a Physician, Registered Nurse, Physician Assistant, or a Paramedic currently licensed in California, and who shall have two (2) years of academic or clinical experience in emergency medicine or prehospital care in the last five (5) years. Duties of the program clinical coordinator shall include, but not be limited to:

(1) Responsibility for the overall quality of medical content of the program;

(2) Approval of the qualifications of the principal instructor(s) and teaching assistant(s).

(e) Each training program shall have a principal instructor(s), who may also be the program clinical coordinator or program director, who shall be qualified by education and experience with at least forty (40) hours of documented teaching methodology instruction in areas related to methods, materials, and evaluation of instruction and shall meet the following qualifications:

(1) Be a Physician, Registered Nurse, Physician Assistant, or Paramedic currently licensed in California; or,

(2) Be an Advanced EMT or EMT who is currently certified in California.

(3) Have at least two (2) years of academic or clinical experience in the practice of emergency medicine or prehospital care in the last five (5) years.

(4) Be approved by the program director in coordination with the program clinical coordinator as qualified to teach the topics to which s/he is assigned. All principal instructors from approved EMT Training Programs shall meet the minimum qualifications as specified in subsection (e) of this Section.

(f) Each training program may have teaching assistant(s) who shall be qualified by training and experience to assist with teaching of the course and shall be approved by the program director in coordination with the program clinical coordinator as qualified to assist in teaching the topics to which the assistant is to be assigned. A teaching assistant shall be supervised by a principal instructor, the program director and/or the program clinical coordinator.

Cal. Code Regs. Tit. 22, § 100070

1. Renumbering and amendment of former section 100027 to section 100070 filed 2-6-87; effective thirtieth day thereafter (Register 87, No. 10). For prior history, see Register 82, Nos. 39 and 36.
2. Amendment filed 6-13-94; operative 7-13-94 (Register 94, No. 24).
3. Amendment filed 9-10-2004; operative 10-10-2004 (Register 2004, No. 37).
4. Amendment filed 5-18-2010; operative 6-17-2010 (Register 2010, No. 21).
5. Amendment filed 5-11-2017; operative 7-1-2017 (Register 2017, No. 19).

Note: Authority cited: Sections 1797.107, 1797.109 and 1797.170, Health and Safety Code. Reference: Sections 1797.109, 1797.170 and 1797.208, Health and Safety Code.