The Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) is a front-line, entry-level healthcare provider. As an EMT, you may work in a variety of environments: transporting patients between facilities, responding to emergency calls, in a hospital emergency department, and elsewhere a first-response capability is required. EMT certification and work experience are required for those seeking Paramedic training, and many doctors, nurses, and other healthcare providers started their careers as EMTs.
We offer our EMT course in four schedules to fit your learning style and schedule. All four provide the same curriculum and expert UCLA faculty.
- Accelerated: Three weeks, Monday-Friday, 8am-6pm, plus the following Monday for final exams and skills testing. $1195.
- Weekend: Eight weekends, Saturday-Sunday, 8am-6pm. $1195.
- Evenings: Eleven weeks, Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday, 6pm-10pm. $1195.
- Online/Hybrid: Ten weekly live online sessions in the evening, self-paced interactive assignments, and eight on-site skills instruction days, 8am-6pm. Please see our EMT Hybrid page for schedule details and to register. $1495.
All four EMT course schedules also require two 12-hour ambulance ride-along shifts, which you will schedule during your EMT course.
On successfully completing our EMT program, you will be eligible to take the national certifying exam (National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians – NREMT) and become licensed as an EMT in Los Angeles County.