The Ministry of Education is to expand the emergency medical technician (EMT) training from nurses to faculty and staff at schools to boost on-campus emergency medical services capacity, ministry official said last week.
The emergency rescue golden hour for a student who has passed out or been injured, or for a mass casualty incident on campus depends on proper first aid responses.
The ministry has required school nurses to complete at least 40 hours of EMT training and is expanding the program to school faculty and staff, who would receive EMT-1, the basic level of training, to build a larger frontline emergency response workforce, the MOE said.
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K-12 Education Administration official Chiu Chiu-chan (邱秋嬋) said that school nurses must receive at least 40 hours of EMT training in accordance with the ministry’s guidelines for emergency injury treatment in schools.
The goal of the policy is not just to increase the number of trainees earning a certificate, but to enable proper and independent first aid treatments when emergencies occur in schools, she said.
That helps secure more golden time for emergency rescue, Chiu said, adding that there were a total of 77 school nurses, faculty and staff from primary or secondary schools participating in the EMT-1 training.
The administration has been promoting the EMT-1 training since 2024 and commissioned the National Academy for Educational Research to organize training programs, she said.
Professional fire and emergency medical knowledge was also integrated into these programs, Chiu said.
The ministry expects such systemic and standardized training programs to help form a campus emergency response support network, she said.
The EMT-1 training was last year extended from nurses to faculty and staff so that schools would have more people to provide assistance when needed, she added.
Campus safety is the foundation of education, Chiu said.
The ministry would continue to integrate professional resources regarding fire safety, healthcare and education to advance first aid treatment trainings and increase on-campus security resilience, she said.
The EMT-1 training program comprises 56 hours.
It includes adult and pediatric cardiopulmonary resuscitation, automated external defibrillator use, cervical spine immobilization, mass-casualty triage, trauma bleeding control and bandaging, management of common medical emergencies and injuries, and infectious disease prevention and control.
It also includes scenario-based training in on-site decisionmaking and team response.
Trainees who complete the program must pass the written and practical examinations to obtain EMT-1 certification.
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