Emergency Medical Services
Customized Training and Continuing Education at Ridgewater College is known across the upper Midwest for providing outstanding EMS training options. This program is renowned for delivering value and flexibility in a training program, with several options to choose from. Ambulance services, fire departments, law enforcement agencies, rescue services and large industrial facilities all look to Customized Training at Ridgewater to ensure their emergency squads have the knowledge and skill necessary to save lives.
We provide education both on-campus and in your community! Contact us for details!
As an approved education provider with the EMSRB and National Registry, we provide initial training for both EMR’s and EMT’s. Our flexible hybrid format combines high-quality online classroom education with intensive hands-on skills training to ensure that our students are prepared to pass both their written exams as well as their psychomotor skills exams and enter the industry with confidence and passion. As an added bonus, EMR’s looking to become EMT’s can take advantage of our EMT Bridge program!
Customized Training offers a tremendous variety of refresher programs for emergency medical personnel of all levels as well. Our famous “44 plans” ensure you meet the recertification requirements of the MN EMSRB with 4 hour classes scheduled through the year on your training nights. We can also provide “one time” EMR and EMT refresher programs – intensive one or two-day training sessions that complete all of your bi-annual CE requirement at one time. You can even complete missing recertification topics online on a class-by-class basis if you are in a pinch!
In any case, we will ensure that your programming is customized to your service needs, while also meeting mandates such as NCCP topical requirements. Most importantly, our value-add service keep track of training completed for everyone on your roster, and will help you through the recertification process each year. This level of customer service has made us an invaluable partner for EMS services across the state!
Solutions to meet your needs
Contact us today to discuss customized training options
patrick.lee@ridgewater.edu
320-222-6081
Search open enrollment classes
Medical Terminology current offerings
Certifications available
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)
- Basic Life Support (BLS)
- Emergency Medical Responder (EMR)
- Emergency Medical Technician (EMT)
- First Aid
- Home Health Aide (HHA)
- International Trauma Life Support (ITLS)
- Medication Administration for Unlicensed Personnel (TMA)
- Nursing Assistant (CNA)
- Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS)
- Pharmacy Technician
- Phlebotomy
Training delivery:
- Hutchinson and Willmar campuses
- On site
- Online blended
Choose Ridgewater
Excellence in healthcare and EMS training is why people choose Ridgewater College. Whether you want to learn initial skills or you are returning for a refresher, our excellent Customized Training and Continuing Education instructors are here to help. Through an interactive curriculum and flexible scheduling, we help ensure you are prepared to care for others. Quality training and practice scenarios improve critical thinking, build confidence, enhance quality outcomes, and enhance communication and teamwork. Let us help you be your best!
What clients say
“Thanks for the hands-on skills. Enjoyed learning again, not just on a computer!” Stroke and seizure patient care
“Concepts very well explained.” Basic life support CPR
“Instructor challenges participants to think.” Hypothermia and cardiac arrest simulation
Look to Ridgewater’s CTCE healthcare and emergency services team for training needs on-site, on campus and online.
