Louisiana Paramedic Programs

Paramedic Training

Become a Paramedic

National EMS Academy’s paramedic program combines flexible online distance learning with hands-on clinical training to prepare you for National Registry certification. Working under physician direction, you will master advanced life support and take charge of patient safety during emergency transport. Graduate fully equipped to deliver the highest level of pre-hospital care across Louisiana in municipal ambulances, industrial sites, or aeromedical transport teams.

Anyone interested in enrolling in the Paramedic class MUST be currently nationally registered as an EMT AND complete Human Anatomy and Physiology (A&P) prior to entering the class.

Paramedic students huddle around a dummy as their instructor demonstrates a procedure.

Skills You Will Learn in paramedic school

Build on your EMT foundation and earn your National Registry paramedic certification. You will master:

  • Start intravenous lines

  • Administer a wide variety of medications

  • Insert advanced airway devices

  • Read electrocardiograms
  • Use manual defibrillators and cardiac pacemakers

  • Perform advanced life-support procedures expected of an emergency medical services professional

Paramedic students must take or show proof of passing a college-level survey A&P course or a full-year A&P course.

A flight paramedic stands on top of a building next to an Acadian Air Med helicopter.

Course Schedule

Advance your career without putting life on hold. Flexible learning built for working EMTs:

Shift-Friendly Scheduling: Classes run one day a week for 12 months, alternating on a 12-hour (2/2/3) work schedule (Tuesdays & Thursdays, 8 a.m. – 5 p.m.).

Hybrid & Distance Options: Through our online paramedic program components and virtual learning tools (VILT), students can complete core lectures flexibly while gaining hands-on laboratory experience at our Louisiana facilities.

Course Composition

  • Minimum of 264 hours

  • 120 Capstone hours

Fully Accredited

EMS Training, AHA Training, Continuing Education & More

Our EMS training facility is an authorized American Heart Association Training Center for CPR and continuing education courses.

South Louisiana Community College‘s paramedic program, hosted at the National EMS Academy, is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs.

Contact CAAHEP:

Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs

25400 US Highway 19 North, Suite 158
Clearwater, FL 33763
Phone: (727) 210-2350
Fax: (727) 210-2354
Email: mail@caahep.org
www.caahep.org