Birmingham Regional Emergency
Medical Services System

Outside CME Opportunities

FEMA Emergency Management Institute
ICS Resource Center

  • ICS-100 Introduction to the Incident Command System: This independent study course introduces ICS and provides the foundation for higher level ICS training. It describes the history, features and principles, and organizational structure of the system. This course also explains the relationship between ICS and NIMS.
  • ICS-200 Basic Incident Command System for Initial Response: This independent study course is designed to enable personnel to operate efficiently during an incident or event within the ICS. ICS-200 provides training and resources for personnel who are likely to assume a supervisory position within the ICS.
  • IS-700 NIMS, an Introduction: This independent study course introduces the NIMS concept. NIMS provides a consistent nationwide template to enable all government, private-sector, and nongovernmental organizations to work together during domestic incidents.

US Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration

National Traffic Incident Management (TIM) Responder Training

CAPCE Approved CME

The National TIM Responder Training course covers notification and scene size-up, safe vehicle positioning, scene safety, command responsibilities, traffic management, special circumstances, and clearance and termination. Upon completion of the course, participants will be able to:

  • Use a common set of practices and advance standards across all responder disciplines.
  • Be equipped with a set of core competencies and strengthening TIM programs in the areas of:
    • Responder safety.
    • Safe, quick clearance.
    • Prompt, reliable, and interoperable communications.

Free Online Self-Paced Training

American Heart Association eLearning

CAPCE Approved CME

Heartcode® BLS Online
HeartCode® BLS Online is a self-directed, comprehensive eLearning program that uses adaptive learning technology to allow learners to acquire and demonstrate Basic Life Support skills using a personalized learning path that adapts in real time to a learner’s performance. The program is designed for healthcare professionals who need Basic Life Support training for their clinical duties. HeartCode® BLS Online consists of a cognitive portion that is completed online.

A separate psychomotor skills assessment using voice assisted manikins with real-time audio and visual feedback or a skills assessment with an AHA Instructor is required to earn a valid AHA BLS Provider eCard that is valid for two years.

For information on scheduling a psychomotor skills assessment please email bremssctc@uab.edu
 
Heartcode® ACLS Online

HeartCode® ACLS Online is a self-directed, comprehensive eLearning program that uses adaptive learning technology to allow learners to acquire and demonstrate Advanced Cardiac Life Support skills using a personalized learning path that adapts in real time to a learner’s performance. The program is designed for healthcare professionals who need Advanced Cardiac Life Support training for their clinical duties. HeartCode® ACLS Online consists of a cognitive portion that is completed online.

A separate psychomotor skills assessment using voice assisted manikins with real-time audio and visual feedback or a skills assessment with an AHA Instructor is required to earn a valid AHA ACLS Provider eCard that is valid for two years.

For information on scheduling a psychomotor skills assessment please email bremssctc@uab.edu.

HeartCode® PALS Online

HeartCode® PALS Online is a self-directed, comprehensive eLearning program that uses adaptive learning technology to allow learners to acquire and demonstrate Pediatric Advanced Life Support skills using a personalized learning path that adapts in real time to a learner’s performance. The program is designed for healthcare professionals who need Pediatric Advanced Life Support training for their clinical duties. HeartCode® PALS Online consists of a cognitive portion that is completed online.

A separate psychomotor skills assessment using voice assisted manikins with real-time audio and visual feedback or a skills assessment with an AHA Instructor is required to earn a valid AHA PALS Provider eCard that is valid for two years.

For information on scheduling a psychomotor skills assessment please email bremssctc@uab.edu.

Advanced Life Support
 

Advanced Life Support: Respiratory Emergencies
The ALS: Respiratory Emergencies Module covers several of the most common respiratory emergencies including severe asthma, cardiogenic pulmonary edema, anaphylaxis, peri-intubation arrest, pulmonary embolism, and noncardiogenic pulmonary edema.
 
Advanced Life Support: High-Performance Teams
The ALS: High-Performance Teams Module covers the essential role of high-performance teams in improving survival from cardiac arrest. It educates students on how high-performance teams carry out their roles in highly effective manners, resulting in superior performance and timing, which can translate to improved survival for patients in cardiac arrest.
 
Advanced Life Support: Maternal Cardiac Arrest
The ALS: Maternal Cardiac Arrest Module explores the why of MCA and how to treat pregnant cardiac arrest patients within a hospital.
 
Advanced Life Support: Procedural Sedation
The ALS: Procedural Sedation Module covers pre-procedural considerations for the use of procedural sedation, including identification of the levels of sedation and when sedation becomes general anesthesia.
 
Advanced Life Support: Advanced ECG
The ALS: Advanced ECG Module describes more complex arrhythmias, such as second and third-degree heart blocks, wide complex tachycardia, and narrow complex tachycardia.
 
Advanced Life Support: Opioid
The ALS: Opioid Module is designed to help clinical team members provide immediate treatment and care for adult opioid overdose victims.
 
Advanced Life Support: Trauma
The Trauma Module describes the systematic evaluation of a trauma patient including performing initial lifesaving maneuvers. This course includes assessment, approaches, and treatment of systematic evaluation of a trauma patient, key concerns during an assessment, adjuncts to the primary trauma survey, airway obstruction maneuvers and securing the airway, identifying shock and providing treatment, hemodynamic instability, and hemorrhage control, trauma resuscitation, permissive hypotension, massive transfusions, traumatic brain injury, burn injuries, and musculoskeletal injuries.
Advanced Life Support: Post-Cardiac Arrest Care

The Post-Cardiac Arrest Care Module describes the pathophysiology of a post-arrest syndrome, the initial management of post-cardiac arrest (first 30 min), and 24-to-72-hour post-ROSC management.

** Keeping in mind that 2020 Guidelines highlighted the new 6th recovery link in the Chain of Survival.
 

Advanced Life Support: Mechanical Circulatory Systems
The Mechanical Circulatory Systems Module describes the introduction to mechanical circulatory support, general concepts of patient selection, and types of percutaneous mechanical circulatory support.
 
Advanced Life Support: Advanced Airway Management
The ALS: Advanced Airway Management Module is designed to teach providers how to evaluate and determine the need for an advanced airway in patients. This course provides instruction on the strategies of oxygen monitoring and delivery prior to advanced airway placement. It also demonstrates the strategies and goals of advanced airway insertion, troubleshooting issues, ensuring proper placement, and monitoring the patient.

PALS Plus
 

PALS Plus ™: Advanced Airway Management
Pediatric airways are not just small adult airways; they carry special considerations and treatments. This module will compare those differences and further discuss the clinical features, diagnosis, and management tactics for obstructions and upper and lower airway diseases of the lungs.
 
PALS Plus™: Child Abuse
This module covers the concepts and interventions related to pediatric child abuse. It is designed to help providers recognize signs and symptoms associated with physical abuse in infants and children.
 
PALS Plus™: Post-Cardiac Arrest Care
The purpose of this module is to educate providers on the pathophysiology and clinical manifestations of pediatric post-cardiac arrest syndrome (PCAS).
 
PALS Plus™: Sedation & Analgesia
Procedural sedation in the pediatric population brings additional factors beyond sedation of an adult patient. This module addresses levels of sedation and the pediatric-focused considerations associated. 
 
PALS Plus ™: Technologically Dependent Child (TDC)
This module describes the identification and management of medical emergencies in pediatric patients with special healthcare needs.
PALS Plus™: Toxicology
This module covers basics on identification of toxic substances through targeted history, physical exam, and diagnostic studies. It introduces common therapies for ingestions, including methods used to minimize drug absorption and enhance excretion for common poisons.

Boundtree University


CAPCE Approved CME

Free, online, CAPCE-accredited EMS1 Academy continuing education courses.

International Trauma Life Support (ITLS) 

CAPCE Approved CME

International Trauma Life Support (ITLS) is a global not-for-profit organization dedicated to preventing death and disability from trauma through education and emergency trauma care.

National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians (NAEMT)

CAPCE Approved CME

The mission of NAEMT education is to improve patient care through high quality, cost effective, evidence-based education that strengthens and enhances the knowledge and skills of EMS practitioners.

Jon Puryear EMS CE

JON PURYEAR EMS CE, LLC

Jon Puryear performs NREMT Online Live and Recorded Refreshers & Prep Class

Pediatric Education for Prehospital Professionals: PEPP

PEPP prepares prehospital professionals for the unique demands of emergency pediatric care. From infant modifications to critical diagnoses to interacting with caregivers, our acclaimed course provides exactly what you need to confidently serve this population.