Award in Remote Emergency Medical Technician

Award in Remote Emergency Medical Technician (AREMT)

Accredited by the Malta Further and Higher Education Authority, this industry-leading Remote Emergency Medical Technician (REMT) program equips you with the essential medical skills and knowledge to provide emergency care in remote and challenging environments.

Program Highlights:

Globally Recognised Certification: Earn the REMT award, the industry standard for professionals operating in remote settings.
Hybrid Learning Format: 75 hours of online training followed by 50 hours of intensive, hands-on classroom training in Malta.
Comprehensive Curriculum: Covers a wide range of medical skills and didactic learning specific to austere environments.

Who Should Enroll?

Mountain Leaders
Professional Guides
Close Protection Team Leaders
Expedition Members
Search and Rescue Team Members
Anyone working in remote, resource-poor environments

Tuition: €1500 (Travel, lodging, and meals for the in-person component are not included)

There are two parts to this Remote EMT award:

Part 1: Online training (75 hours). The REMT programme starts with 75 hours of eLearning content. All lessons must be completed, all online exams taken, and the patient scenarios submitted to our tutors before you can be issued with a completion certificate.

Part 2: Classroom training (50 hours). After completing Part 1, you will travel to Malta for six days of extensive classroom experience. Most of the week is hands-on, with some lectures to review the key topics covered during the online training.

Tuition is €1500. Travel, lodging, and meals for Part 2 are the student’s responsibility.

Once you register for the Remote EMT programme, you will receive access to our Moodle-based online learning platform.

Field Guide.

Additional Options

1. REMT graduates are eligible to sit for the TR-C. The International Board of Specialty Certification’s (IBSC) Certified Tactical Responder (TR-C) exam.

The TR-C demonstrates competency in casualty assessment, stabilisation, and evacuation in hostile and austere environments, and supports the paramedic role, with thorough familiarity with tactical principles, triage, and operational medicine.

2. REMT graduates are eligible sit for the IPR EMT registration. The EMT registration exam with the International Paramedic Registry is used by several countries as their national registration.

Registration with IPR certification provides a competitive edge for career advancement, fosters professional accountability, and signals a commitment to continuous learning in emergency medical services.

3. REMT students can choose to earn their NAEMT PHTLS-Basic certification. When you book onto this course, let the College know that you would like to earn your PHTLS certificate. The additional cost is the PHTLS textbook and NAEMT certificate.

COURSE SPECIFICATIONS

Course Content

75 hours of online content
Basic Life Support for healthcare providers
Automatic External Defibrillator (AED)
Patient assessment using CABC
Catastrophic haemorrhage and tourniquets
Airway management including supraglottics
Breathing emergencies
Needle decompression and chest seals
Circulation emergencies
Shock, burns and crush injuries
Disability emergencies
Traction splints and pelvic binders
Environmental emergencies
Vital signs including BP and SPO2
ACLS for EMTs
Prolonged Field Care
Improvised medicine
Altitude emergencies
Intro to tropical medicine
Pharmacology and drugs management
Patient packaging and litters
Top 20 ailments seen in remote clinics
Extended live casualty scenario with hands on prolonged field care

Learning Outcomes

The delegate will learn to manage medical emergencies independently that require problem-solving techniques where there are many factors, some of which interact and lead to unpredictable outcomes.
The delegate will show creativity in managing medical emergencies, manage people and review performance of self and others, and trains others to assist him during medical emergencies.
The delegate will express a comprehensive internalised personal world view by utilising the Gibbs reflective model for reflecting on past performance.
The delegate will learn skills to undertake further emergency medicine studies. The delegate will build on their foundational knowledge of patient assessment and develop advanced concepts in medical treatment for injuries found in remote and austere environments.
The delegate will develop strategic and creative responses in researching solutions to well-defined concrete and abstract problems.
The delegate will learn to make judgements based on knowledge of relevant social and ethical issues surrounding patient assessment, trauma assessment and medical assessment, including the treatments for medical emergencies found in resource-poor environments.
The delegate will understand advanced textbooks that will lead to further academic medical learning and will research solutions to abstract medical problems.
The delegate will demonstrate operational capacity and medical management skills using creativity and improvisation.
The delegate will interact with other medical team members to convey abstract and concrete medical solutions to emergencies.
The delegate will formulate practical and theoretical responses to abstract and concrete medical problems and judge social and ethical issues pertaining to the medical casualty.
The delegate will evaluate their medical learning and will improve key competencies for further medical education and promote team training.
The delegate shows responsibility for the reflective and efficient management of medical emergencies within agreed time frames.

Course Delivery

Online: 68% / Classroom: 32%

This module provides 75 hours of online guided learning under our instructors’ teaching, focusing on assessing and treating medical emergencies in remote, austere and resource-limited areas.

Additionally, there are 50 hours of classroom-based training where the learner will have hands-on experience with the medical skills and equipment needed for the remote medical responder.

Assessment

A final written online exam
A classroom practical exam.

The learner will use an online learning management system with direct involvement with our tutors, who interact with the learners and are available for questions and additional learning if required.

Assessment Weighting: Online exam: 50% / Practical exam: 50%

Grades are set from the EU grading scheme:

80-100% Distinction
70-79% Merit
55-69% Pass
45-54% Compensated Pass
0-34% Lower Fail

Reading List

Core Reading List

Field Guide for Remote Practitioners by CoROM, 2nd edit. 2020 ISBN 9789995791308.
Mistovitch, J., and Karren, K. (2018). Prehospital Emergency Care, 11th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Brady Books.

Supplementary Reading List

- Oxford Handbook of Expedition and Wilderness Medicine, 2015 ISBN 0199688419.
- Auerbach’s Wilderness Medicine, 2016 ISBN 0323359426.

IBSC Tactical Responder

REMT graduates are eligible to sit the International Board of Specialty Certification’s (IBSC) Certified Tactical Responder (TR-C) exam.

The Certified Tactical Responder (TR-C) was developed in response to the law enforcement TEMS community input that non-paramedic functioning in tactical environment would benefit from a similar certification process to the Certified Tactical Paramedic (TP-C).

The expectation for the TR-C exam candidate is competency in casualty assessment, stabilization, and evacuation in hostile and austere environments in a non-paramedic function; as well as thorough familiarity with tactical principles, triage, and operational medicine.

TR-C candidates are operators functioning within a team and commonly have a primary law enforcement role with a secondary medical role.

The certification process is focused on decreasing preventable deaths at the point of wounding and is aligned with the three definitive phases of TECC/TCCC care.