Sec. 8. Field EMS education grants
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For the purpose of promoting field EMS as a health profession and ensuring the availability, quality, and capability of field EMS educators, practitioners, and medical directors, the Director of the Office of EMS and Trauma (in this section referred to as the Director ) may make grants to eligible entities for the development, availability, and dissemination of field EMS education programs and courses that improve the quality and capability of field EMS personnel. In carrying out this section, the Director shall take into consideration input from the Administrator of NHTSA, FICEMS, NEMSAC, the National Health Care Workforce Commission established under section 5101 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ( 42 U.S.C. 294q ), and relevant stakeholders.
In this section, the term eligible entity means an educational organization, an educational institution, a professional association, and any other entity involved with the education of field EMS practitioners. The Director may award a grant to an eligible entity under paragraph
(1)only if the entity agrees to use the grant to— develop and implement education programs that— train field EMS trainers and promote the adoption and implementation of the education standards identified in the Emergency Medical Services Education Agenda for the Future: A Systems Approach including any revisions thereto; bridge the gap in knowledge and skills in field EMS and among field EMS and other allied health professions to develop a larger cadre of educational instructors and build a stronger and more flexible field EMS practitioner corps; or provide training and retraining programs to provide displaced workers the opportunity to enter a field EMS profession; develop and implement educational courses pertaining to— instructor courses; provision of medical direction of field EMS; field EMS practitioners, including physicians, emergency medical technicians, paramedics, nurses, and other relevant clinicians providing emergency medical care in the field; field EMS educational and clinical research; bridge programs among field EMS, nursing, and other allied health professions; field EMS management; national, evidence-based guidelines; and translation of the lessons learned in military medicine to field EMS; evaluate education and training courses and methodologies to identify optimal educational modalities for field EMS practitioners; improve the field EMS education infrastructure by increasing the number of field EMS instructors and the quality of their preparation by improving, enhancing, and modernizing the dissemination of EMS education, including distance learning, and by establishing quality improvement for EMS education programs; enhance the opportunity for medical direction training and for promoting appropriate medical oversight of field emergency medical care; improve systems to design, implement, and evaluate education for prospective and current field EMS providers; or carrying out such other activities as the Director may identify. The Director, in consultation with NHTSA and relevant stakeholders, and taking into consideration the recommendations of FICEMS and NEMSAC, shall establish a system of prioritization in awarding grants under this section to eligible entities. Grants under this section shall be for a period of 1 to 3 years. The Director may not award a grant to an eligible entity under this section unless the entity submits an application to the Director in such form, in such manner, and containing such agreements, assurances, and information as the Director may require. The Director shall ensure that the requirements for submitting an application under this section are not unduly burdensome.
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