Kitsap EMT Courses

🚨 Important Update: New Sponsorship Structure for January 2026

We’ve restructured our EMT course payment system to better connect students with local career opportunities.

Get this information ready for your application

📋BEFORE YOU APPLY – PREREQUISITES

  • Must be 18 years old – Copy of driver’s license required

  • Part 1 of AHA CPR Card – We provide Part 2 during the course

      • Step 1: Visit HeartCode BLS
      • Step 2: Purchase and complete the online course
      • Step 3: Submit completion certificate with application
      • Step 4: Complete practical during EMT course for full BLS card

  • Reading Comprehension Proof (NEED ONLY ONE):

      • Associates Degree or higher (send diploma)
      • College transcript showing English 101 completion
      • Accuplacer test score qualifying for English 101+

  • Health Provider Immunizations:

      • MMR vaccination or titer proof of immunity
      • TB testing within the last year
      • Tetanus vaccination within past 10 years
      • Hepatitis B vaccination
      • Varicella vaccination or proof of immunity

    ** You may turn in your application before you get all your immunizations gathered. However, your application will not be considered complete, and you will not receive a seat until everything is turned in.

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  • High School Diploma/GED – Only if using Accuplacer for reading comprehension

💰COST INFORMATION

Course Cost: $1,700
Includes: Tuition, Books, Supplies, NREMT Voucher

IMPORTANT: All tuition is paid through your sponsoring agency:

  • Fire Department Sponsorship: Contact your local department directly
  • Olympic Ambulance Sponsorship: Students pay Olympic directly
  • No individual payments accepted

🤝Start Your EMS Career with Agency Backing!

  • WA EMT Certification Pathway- If retained by your sponsoring agency after graduation, you’ll be eligible to apply for your Washington State EMT credentials after passing your NREMT exam

  • Agency Partnership from Day One – Train with a sponsoring agency that’s invested in your development.

  • Potential Tuition Benefits – Some sponsors offer tuition reimbursement or assistance programs for successful graduates they retain.
  • Real-World Training Excellence – Master emergency medical skills through our comprehensive, hands-on program.

🎯Two Sponsorship Options:

🚒 Local Fire Department Sponsorship

Contact your local fire department directly to inquire about sponsorship opportunities. Many departments have programs for EMT students, whether for volunteers or future employees.

Find your department: Check our About Us pages 

🚑 Olympic Ambulance Sponsorship

Olympic Ambulance sponsors students who cannot secure fire department backing. You’ll pay Olympic directly, and they handle tuition payment to KCEMS. This is solely a payment arrangement with no employment obligations.

Find out more here!

Contact: 360-377-7777 or [email protected]

🛤️Your Path Forward:

  1. Apply through KCEMS for course admission
  2. Secure sponsorship with your local fire department OR Olympic Ambulance
  3. Complete payment arrangements with your chosen sponsor
  4. Excel in our intensive, scenario-based training
  5. Pass your NREMT exam
  6. If retained by your sponsor, apply for WA EMT certification
  7. Begin your emergency medical services career!

⚡Quick Facts

Duration: January 6 – March 30, 2025

Schedule: M,W,F 6-9 PM (Zoom) + Saturdays 9 AM-4 PM (In-person)

Location: Saturday labs at Bremerton Readiness Center

Class Size: 24 seats maximum

Application Deadline: December 1st or until full

Contact: Tamarah Hoffman at 360-447-2068

M, W, F BY ZOOM

The Saturday Labs are located at the Bremerton Readiness Center.

This is 1211 Carver St Street.

Bremerton

Next to Kitsap 911.

🚀Ready to Start Your EMS Career?

We currently have this many seats available for our Winter 2026 class.

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📞Questions? Call 360-447-2068

We are now accepting applications for our winter EMT class.

There are 24 seats per class. How many seats are still available?

Course seats will be awarded when all application documents are received.  Students are not accepted into the course until the KCEMS office is awarded a seat number.

Have any questions?  Call Tamarah Hoffman, Training Coordinator, at 360-447-2068. or [email protected]

Deadline is November 30th for our Winter January Course.

Note: All students must have confirmed sponsorship before course start. Sponsorship terms, including any tuition benefits, are determined by individual agencies.

Frequently Asked Questions

Have you ever considered working or volunteering as an Emergency Medical Technician, but weren’t sure where to begin?

Here’s is how you make it happen.

  1. Take an EMT Course – You are at the right place.  Kitsap EMS and Trauma Council offer State Certified EMT courses twice a year. Our classes run from January – March, and from September to December.
  2. Take and pass the National Registry Exam.  Our course will prepare you to take the exam.  Our final is two practice National exams.
  3. Become affiliated with a licensed EMS agency or fire district.
 Talk with your local fire department now on how you can volunteer for their district and their residency program.  Ask your local EMS agencies how they can help you achieve your goals. 

You can prove your reading comprehension by a variety of ways:

1.By taking the Accuplacer Exam.

OR

2. You have already taken ENG 101 in college. Send your college transcript.

OR

3. You can have an AA or a BA college degree.

  1. In regards to becoming a firefighter here is an excellent article: https://www.firescience.org/how-to-become-a-firefighter/

    Each fire district is different.

    Some fire districts want you to become an EMT BEFORE you become affiliated with them.

    Some want you they want you to go to fire academy first before EMT courses.

    Contact fire districts’ volunteer departments and speak about your goals. One will be the right fit for you.

  2. Take the fire fighter placement tests, is also a good start. This is a national database, of all your fighter fighter skills,  you can learn more about where to take a test here: https://www.publicsafetytesting.com/information-center/test-requirements-firefighter-physical/

This course is the first step on your EMS Journey. A typical EMT, EMS journey is the following:

EMT Course ( 1 quarter) 

Once an EMT, you may apply for paramedic school. Typically, the prerequisites will require a number of calls and about a year as an EMT. After one year as an EMT, you may become an IV technician if your local protocols support this endorsement.

So your journey could look like this

EMT, IV Tech, Paramedic, or EMT to Paramedic.

Please call the office or your local paramedic school if you have more questions regarding this EMS journey.

Do you accept the GI Bill?

Unfortunately, our program is not set up to accept the GI bill as a form of payment.

is class is equivalent to taking a college-level entry course. If taking this at a local college, they would consider this full time for one quarter at 12 credits.

Students cover 1600 pages in 41 chapters. There are 20-question chapter quizzes with module exams every week.

This is a very difficult course of study!  The student should expect to spend a minimum of 3 to 4 hours of study time each day outside of the classroom.  Students, who have not had higher than average academic success in the past, will find this course very difficult.

You will have one 10-hour field rotation on top of your class responsibilities.

Yes!

You have weekly M,W, F  6- 9 PM lectures by Zoom.

Every Saturday is an in-person live skill station, at the  Kitsap Readiness center in Bremerton.

Additionally, you must attend:

  • One 10-hour field ride-along rotation with an EMS agency.
  • Do 50 vitals on your family, friends, fellow students, etc.
  • You will be taking quizzes on every chapter, and module exams every week. You will have 10 patient care reports to write.
  • All this will help prepare you to pass your national exam.

or

  1. Download the ESE PowerPoint online at EMS Evaluator Information: Washington State Department of Health; https://www.doh.wa.gov/ForPublicHealthandHealthcareProviders/EmergencyMedicalServicesEMSSystems/EMSEducationandTraining/EMSEvaluatorInformation

AND

  1. Take the ESE online cognitive evaluator survey located on the DOH website at https://fortress.wa.gov/doh/opinio/s?s=EMSevaluator

Send your survey results to the KCEMS office when you apply.

We understand plans have been made. If you have a planned Saturday absence prior to submitting your application, please clear it with your instructor. Saturday labs are difficult to make up, and you can not get enough skill time.

Here is the attendance policy.

Students are expected to attend all classes, and class attendance shall be recorded. Students may be dropped from a course after accumulating absences more than 10 percent of the total hours of instruction (lecture and practical). For a 180-credit-hour lecture/practical course, students will be dropped after 18 hours of absence.

Students are responsible for working with their instructor to develop a plan with deadlines, to make up missed coursework. Students may be asked to provide documentation that the class absence is warranted. Reasonable accommodations will be subject to instructor availability.