Longhorn Student EMS is a registered entity of the UT Student Government dedicated to establishing a student-led EMS response system for the UT campus. In pursuit of this objective, each semester LHSEMS invites LHSEMS Education Program to conduct an EMT certification course on the UT campus. These courses lead to national and state EMT certification and expose the student to the fundamentals of patient care. This knowledge and experience will be useful for anyone planning a career that involves patients: family practice, radiology, surgery, nursing. If your career plans involve dealing with patients, this course will help lay a strong foundation for your future patient care activities.
In addition, the student will learn how to deal with emergency situations, from broken arms to heart attacks. This knowledge plus the EMT certification can lead to part-time jobs at area emergency rooms, local ambulance services, and specialty clinics. EMT’s are also in demand for “stand-by” at UT sporting events such as football, basketball, and volleyball.
The LHSEMS EMT-Basic course is a one-semester course consisting of 67 hours of classroom instruction, 37 hours of skills practice/testing, 24 hours riding with Austin-Travis County EMS, 24 hours working in St. David’s emergency department, and 12 hours in St. David’s labor and delivery department. Clinical assignment times are picked by the students from available dates/times during an in-class sign-up session which is held soon after the start of class.
The classroom will be on the UT campus. Past locations have been in Jester and Parlin. The classroom instruction and skills practice will take place MWF for 3 hours in the late afternoon.
Class is held in the evening to minimize conflicts with UT courses. Clinicals are done outside of class time, usually on the weekends. However, Austin-Travis County EMS and St. David’s Medical Center Emergency Department accept LHSEMS students 24/7.
In order to successfully complete the course, students must maintain an overall 80 average, make an 80 on the final exam, and successfully complete all clinicals and all skills.
Longhorn Student EMS Education Program has a strict rule that students may not miss more than 9 one-hour classes for any reason. Please be sure that you can attend all mandatory hours in the course schedule.
The Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) is the regulatory agency for EMS in the state of Texas. Longhorn Student EMS (LHSEMS), like all EMS educational programs in the state of Texas, is an accredited EMS training site regulated by DSHS.
In order to practice as an EMT in the state of Texas, DSHS requires that a candidate successfully complete a state-accredited EMT course, pass the National Registry EMT and then apply for state EMT certification. The LHSEMS EMT course is state-accredited. Successful completion will allow the student to take the National Registry exam.