AMR Central Mississippi graduates ten newly trained EMTs
JANS – AMR Central Mississippi graduated ten candidates for certification as emergency medical technicians (EMTs) from the operation’s latest in-house paid course. After passing a mandatory national exam, each will become an EMT in the Hinds County EMS system. Eight will work full time at AMR with starting base pay of $41,200 per year plus overtime. The two other graduates work full time at the Jackson Fire Department. The JFD personnel are eligible for part-time EMT positions with AMR.
The group is the seventeenth since 2019 to complete AMR’s EMT course at its Jackson facility. Calling the program “Earn While You Learn,” AMR hires strong applicants and pays them to take the ten to twelve week course. The program enables job seekers to launch a career on AMR’s ambulances and reduces the pressing shortage of EMS caregivers in Hinds County.
Including this latest class, approximately 175 metro area residents have graduated from AMR’s in-house paid EMT courses.
AMR’s EMT instructor Malcolm Robinson said 44 percent of the EMTs staffing AMR Central Mississippi ambulances are graduates of in-house courses. He said, “These graduates, like those from our sixteen previous paid courses, will augment our current team of EMTs and paramedics. They will enlarge the AMR workforce that protects every Hinds County resident, commuter, visitor, and transient from medical and trauma emergencies.”
The ceremony included remarks from local AMR leaders and area officials.
AMR will start its eighteenth “Earn While You Learn” course in April and its nineteenth course in August. To inquire about admission, contact. Malcolm Robinson at 601-919-7860 or Malcolm.robinson@gmr.net.
