fortsmithman
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What you are proposing will not happen anytime soon if ever. The problem is that EMT is a trade degree. People that are going in to it do not want to be in school, learning english, math etc.
Here in Canada in the province of Ontario in order to be a Primary Care Paramedic which is BLS (roughly equal to an EMT-I) you have to have a 2 year college diploma. At the University of Toronto they have a 4 year BSc in paramedicine and in the province of Alberta there is Medicine Hat College which offers another bachelors degree program in paramedicine. Here in Canada EMS is a career profession not a trade. The Government of Canada has a medal to be awarded for EMS worker for 20 yrs service in EMS it is called the Emergency Medical Service Exemplary Service Medal. I think it will happen here in Canada first. Here in Canada our version of EMT-B which is called Emergency Medical Responder is primarily used in industrial settings as well as rural settings. Here in the NWT we will be finally getting legislation regarding EMS and the minimum education required will be EMT/PCP (equal to EMT-I).