Kansas Administrative Regulations
Agency 109 - BOARD OF EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES
Article 8 - EXAMINATIONS
Section 109-8-1 - Examination

(a) The cognitive certification examination for emergency medical responders, emergency medical technicians, advanced emergency medical technicians, and paramedics shall be the national registry of emergency medical technicians' cognitive examination.

(b) Each emergency medical responder or emergency medical technician applicant shall be required to successfully complete the national registry of emergency medical technicians' cognitive examination and shall be required to demonstrate competency in psychomotor skills as evaluated by the psychomotor skills examination prescribed by the board.

(e) Each advanced emergency medical technician or paramedic applicant shall successfully complete the national registry of emergency medical technicians' cognitive examination and psychomotor skills evaluation.

(f) Any emergency medical responder or emergency medical technician applicant who is tested in psycho-motor skills and who fails any psychomotor skill station may retest each failed station a maximum of three times.

(g) Each emergency medical responder, emergency medical technician, advanced emergency medical technician, and paramedic shall successfully complete both the cognitive examination and the psychomotor skills examination no later than 24 months after the last date of that individual's initial course of instruction. Each individual specified in this subsection shall be required to successfully complete both the cognitive examination and the psychomotor skills examination within a 12-month period.

(h) Any examination for certification may be modified by the board as a pilot project to evaluate proposed changes to the psychomotor skills examination.