Indiana Administrative Code
Title 836 - INDIANA EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES COMMISSION
Article 4 - TRAINING AND CERTIFICATION
Rule 2 - Emergency Medical Services Training Institution
Section 2-2 - Institutional responsibilities

(1) Designate one (1) person as a training institution official responsible for:

(2) Submit to an inspection of training facilities and equipment.

(3) Provide a list of educational staff to meet staffing-student ratio requirements established in approved curricula.

(4) Have the necessary clinical facilities, or affiliations with clinical facilities, to conduct the required clinical phases of emergency medical service training programs.

(5) Under conditions where didactic and clinical training are to be conducted by separate institutions, program responsibility will rest with the institution that is certified by the commission. In cases where two (2) or more certified training institutions are cooperating in the presentation of an emergency medical services training program, both institutions will be held jointly responsible for the training programs.

(6) Provide classroom space to effectively present the various requirements in the curricula.

(7) The curriculum requirements for all certified training programs shall be approved by the commission. Course applications will be made in a manner prescribed by the agency. The agency or commission may disapprove a course application when it has been determined that the training institution or primary instructor has been found in noncompliance with rules and regulations.

(8) Have the training equipment and training aids (including the emergency care equipment) required by the curriculum of the courses that the training institution offers. The training institution shall have an adequate amount of the training equipment to be utilized by students to meet any equipment-to-student ratios prescribed by the curriculum being presented.

(9) Make available a minimum of twelve (12) hours, over a two (2) year period, of continuing education in educational principles and techniques for each of its affiliated primary instructors. A training institution may offer this continuing education or advise its faculty members of such continuing education at other sites. The training institution official may accept educational programs conducted at other facilities.

(10) Evaluate each course and retain a record of the evaluation.

(11) Evaluate each affiliated instructor at least one (1) time a calendar year and retain a record of the evaluation.

(12) Provide educational personnel for each approved training course, consisting of the following:

(13) Be responsible for in-course standards and criteria by which it determines a student's successful completion of the didactic and clinical portions of the course. The criteria include, but are not limited to, the following:

(14) Be responsible for the screening and evaluation criteria for admission into any certified training program.

(15) Assure a certified primary instructor, affiliated with the training institution, is present in each emergency medical technician class session unless a specialty topic instructor in:

(16) Have a retention schedule of seven (7) years for all training and course records.