Emergency Medical Services Graduate Certificate
Year of Service Program 2025 - 2026
“Mentoring the future leaders of EMS through a service-focused education.”
Deadline for Submission to GradApp: April 15, 2025
Start Date: May 19, 2025
Program Overview:
The Graduate Certificate in Emergency Medical Services (EMS) provides students with a unique opportunity to serve their community while simultaneously working towards a future career in medicine or public health. Through participation in this program, students will:
Enhance Clinical Experience: Improve your clinical practice through engagement in asynchronous learning and in-person skills workshops on advanced topics in EMS, public health, bioethics, and education.
Learn from Emergency Physicians and EMS Educators: Engage with nationally-recognized Emergency Physicians and EMS educators through workshops and specialty seminar sessions.
Prepare for their Future: Develop your career goals and receive individualized clinical & career mentorship to further reach your future goals.
The certificate program is designed for students who have obtained a Bachelor’s degree and anticipate matriculation into a professional or graduate level training program within one to two years. The program aims to augment the competitiveness of their application. The experiences gained through participation in this program will benefit students in their future careers by providing a strong clinical foundation on which to anchor their educational experiences. The focus of the program is gaining competencies and skills needed to practice as a high-performing clinician. Students will explore the role of EMTs within the emergency medical system and their intersection with public health, bioethics, and implementation sciences.
Through completion of the certificate program, students will be well-positioned to excel in professional schools, to practice as high-performing EMS clinicians, and to function as a qualified EMS instructor in the state of Arizona with an additional certificate of completion in instructional methodology. Students may also choose to pursue a Master’s in Public Health upon completion of the certificate and some certificate coursework will count towards that degree.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited four-year college or university or anticipate graduation with minimal outstanding/incomplete undergraduate requirements from The University of Arizona.
- Cumulative undergraduate GPA of 3.0 or higher
- Active EMT certification in Arizona
- Submission of University of Arizona Graduate College Application (final acceptance into certificate program is dependent on admission into Graduate College)
- Statement of Purpose
- One (1) Letter of Recommendation
- Applied to and anticipate employment (minimum Part-Time) by first day of class
Courses:
- EMD 550 Foundations of Integrated Clinical Management and EMS Policy (3 units)
- EMD 593A EMS Health Services Delivery and Clinical Management Internship (3 units)
- EMD 551 Applied Methods in EMS Health Services Delivery (3 units)
- EMD 580 Instructional Methodology for EMS Educators (3 units)
- EMD 598 EMS Graduate Capstone (3 units)
- 2 MPH core/electives
Sample Public Health Core/Electives (Availability to be determined by College of Public Health):
- PHPM 574 Public Health Policy & Management (3 units)
- BIO 576A Biostatistics in Public Health (3 units)
- PHPM 569 Health Budgeting & Financial Management (3 units)
- PHPM 562 Health Services Administration (3 units)
- HPS 531 Contemporary Health Issues and Research (3 units)
- HPS 533 Global Health (3 units)
- PHP 641 Health Systems Delivery (3 units)
- HPS 535 Multicultural Health Beliefs (3 units)
Disclaimer: This program is not a bridge program to medical school, with no association with the University of Arizona College of Medicine admissions. In addition, this is not a pathway for a Visa student to become eligible for admission to the University of Arizona College of Medicine.