EMS Continuing Education

Please refer to each offering to obtain information about continuing education.

EMS Rescue Series

As part of the Trauma Center at Penn Division of Traumatology, Surgical Critical Care & Emergency Surgery at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, we are dedicated to the continuum of educational training for clinicians who provide advanced Trauma and Surgical Critical Care life support, ultimately impacting the quality of care, support, and treatment of Trauma, Surgical Critical Care & Emergency Surgery patients and their families through medicine, research, science, and education.

As a part of our ongoing focus on prehospital care, Penn Trauma offers a Virtual EMS Education Series the third Thursday of every month. This webinar offers 1 hour of PA DOH accredited continuing education credits for EMTs, paramedics and PHRNs. To sign for class notifications, please email Brain Potenski, Trauma/EMS Liaison, at Brian.Potenski@pennmedicine.upenn.edu.

Stop the Bleed

Bleeding injuries are the second leading cause of trauma related deaths in the country. Studies have shown that uncontrolled blood loss was the leading cause of preventable death among troops who died on the battlefield or in military treatment facilities. Excessive and uncontrolled bleeding can result in death in less than five minutes, often before trained responders are on the scene.

Penn's Level 1 Trauma Center is part of a nationwide campaign, Stop the Bleed to empower individuals to act quickly and save lives. The Stop the Bleed Campaign provides education to the local Philadelphia community with basic tools and information on the simple steps that can be taken in an emergency situation to stop life-threatening blood loss.

Penn Medicine's first Stop the Bleed event was held at Lincoln Financial Field, and provided more than 250 school nurses with hands-on training on how to stem bleeding through proper application of tourniquets, gauze packs or bandages, and safely open an airway.

Since the nationwide launch of the campaign in 2015, organizations and businesses across the country including the American Heart Association, the American College of Surgeons, the American Red Cross, and even airports, have signed on to teach civilians basic lifesaving techniques. In addition to offering training for the public, campaign supporters are working to make tourniquets and bleeding control kits commonplace in schools, stadiums, airports, malls and other places to reduce casualties from mass attacks and bombings.

To learn more about Penn Medicine’s Stop the Bleed Campaign, email InjuryPrevention@uphs.upenn.edu.

AHA Certifications

BLS (CPR) – Simulation at Penn Medicine
ACLS – Simulation at Penn Medicine
PALS – Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS)

For registration and cost information: AHA Registration - Simulation at Penn Medicine

Courses are held at:

Penn Medicine Clinical Simulation Center
1800 Lombard Street, 2nd floor
Philadelphia, PA 19146

EMS Continuing Education Courses