Field Lifesaving Response Program
Field Lifesaving Response Program — a Matcom University professional development pathway.
Professional development only. Exam preparation, not certification. Matcom University provides awareness, education, and exam-preparation training to help you get ready for the real state and national board examinations. We do not issue state or national certifications or licenses, including APCO, NENA, NREMT, MIEMSS (Maryland EMS), FEMA, or state 9-1-1 telecommunicator, call-taker, dispatcher, EMR, EMT, AEMT, or paramedic credentials. Our programs prepare you to sit for and pass the official state and national examinations; certification is granted only by the issuing authority after you meet all of its requirements.
Who it's for
Public safety officers, security personnel, emergency communicators transitioning to field roles, emergency management staff, and other responders who may be first on scene at a medical emergency or injury. No prior clinical training is assumed.
Program director: Walter Lee
What you'll be able to do
- Apply scene size-up, standard precautions, and PPE selection to decide whether and how to approach a patient safely.
- Distinguish a first responder's scope of practice, consent considerations, and medical direction limits from advanced EMS care in realistic scenarios.
- Apply a structured trauma assessment sequence, including scene safety, PPE, massive hemorrhage, airway, breathing, circulation, and hypothermia prevention, to simulated patients within scope of practice.
- Demonstrate correct tourniquet application and wound packing for life-threatening extremity and junctional hemorrhage under the observation of a qualified instructor.
Drawn from the learning objectives of the required courses.
Schedule
- 1. MU-FLER-101 Field Lifesaving and Emergency Responseabout 5 weeks · 30.0 h cumulative
- 2. MU-AFTLR-201 Advanced Field Trauma and Lifesaving Responseabout 4 weeks · 50.0 h cumulative
Estimated pace at about 6 study hours per week. Instructor-led cohorts set their own dates.
Upcoming cohorts
No cohorts are scheduled yet. Contact training@matcomops.org to ask about the next start date.
Curriculum
- Step 1 · MU-FLER-101Field Lifesaving and Emergency Response30 h · 4 modules
Field Lifesaving and Emergency Response introduces public safety, security, and emergency response personnel to the immediate actions that preserve life before advanced medical care arrives. Learners study scene size-up, standard precautions, scope-of-practice boundaries, structured primary assessment, airway and breathing support, high-quality CPR with automated external defibrillator use, and hemorrhage control, including direct pressure, wound packing, and tourniquet application. The course also covers recognition of shock, common medical and environmental emergencies, and how first responders fit within the Incident Command System and hand off patients to EMS. Instruction emphasizes decision-making under stress, safety, documentation, and responder wellness. Online content builds knowledge and applied reasoning, but psychomotor competence in CPR/AED and bleeding control must be validated in person by a qualified instructor outside Matcom. Local medical direction and agency policy always take precedence over general course guidance.
IMPORTANT MEDICAL SCOPE NOTICE: This program provides educational and first-aid training. It does not confer EMT, paramedic, nursing, physician, or other professional medical licensure. Operate only within your training, certification, employer policy, applicable law, and direction from emergency medical professionals. When a potentially life-threatening emergency exists, activate 9-1-1/EMS as soon as possible.
- Step 2 · MU-AFTLR-201Advanced Field Trauma and Lifesaving Response20 h · 4 modules · after MU-FLER-101
Advanced Field Trauma and Lifesaving Response prepares emergency medical, fire, law enforcement, security, and field operations personnel to deliver rapid, systematic care to seriously injured patients before definitive care is available. Learners build on basic first aid and bleeding-control awareness. They apply a structured approach to scene safety, hemorrhage control, airway and breathing management, circulation support, hypothermia prevention, and transport decisions. The course emphasizes tourniquet application, wound packing, chest injury recognition, burn and blast considerations, multi-casualty triage, and clear patient handoff reporting. Learners also analyze how care changes across threat environments, using tactical emergency casualty care concepts and Incident Command System communication. Online content covers decision-making, physiology, and documentation. Hands-on skills must be validated separately by a qualified instructor. All clinical actions are framed within the learner's certification level, scope of practice, local protocols, and medical direction.
Educational trauma and lifesaving training only. It does not confer EMS certification or licensure.
Optional electives
- MU-CTP-201EMT and Paramedic National Exam Readiness15.5 h · 4 modules
EMT and Paramedic National Exam Readiness prepares students who are completing, or have recently completed, a state-approved EMS education program to approach the National Registry cognitive examination with a clear, data-driven plan. The course explains exam structure and computer-adaptive testing, helps learners turn diagnostic results into a realistic study schedule, and reviews high-yield content in airway and ventilation, cardiology and resuscitation, trauma, medical emergencies, obstetrics and pediatrics, and EMS operations. Students practice a structured method for dissecting question stems, eliminating distractors, and recognizing common reasoning traps, and they learn practical strategies for managing test anxiety. Content reflects national standards and published guidelines. Where local protocols or medical direction differ, learners are reminded that the national examination tests national-level knowledge. Matcom University does not issue EMS certification or licensure. This course does not replace an approved education program, clinical or field internship, the NREMT psychomotor requirements, or state credentialing, and it does not guarantee an examination result.
EXAM READINESS COURSE: Matcom University does not issue EMT or Paramedic certification or licensure. This course prepares students to sit external national and state examinations after completing a state-approved EMS program.
- MU-EMS-101Anatomy, Physiology and Medical Terminology for EMS15 h · 4 modules
Anatomy, Physiology and Medical Terminology for EMS is the foundation course for learners preparing for Advanced EMT and Paramedic study. It teaches the language of medicine first: how to build, break apart, and safely abbreviate medical terms so that reports, radio communication, and hospital handoffs are precise. Learners then move through body organization and the structure and function of the respiratory, cardiovascular, nervous, musculoskeletal, digestive, renal, endocrine, and reproductive systems. Throughout, normal physiology is linked to the pathophysiology that matters in the field, including hypoxia, inadequate perfusion and shock, stroke, seizures, fractures, hypoglycemia, and fluid and acid-base disturbance. The course is conceptual and knowledge-based and does not teach patient care procedures. Scope of practice, protocols, and treatment decisions remain governed by local agency policy and medical direction. Learners finish able to explain what is happening inside a patient and to say so accurately in writing and in speech.
FOUNDATION COURSE: This educational course does not confer any EMS certification. It prepares students for further approved EMS education.
To graduate you must pass every required course (orientation, lessons, knowledge checks, assignments, practical sign-offs, practice exam, and a final exam at 80% or higher), meet the elective rule, and complete the capstone.