Faculty/Teaching Staff Selection

PERCOM strives to provide quality educational experiences for all of its students.  To achieve this goal, one of the most important pieces revolves around selection of instructional staff.  The following criteria will apply to selection of didactic instructors and skill instructors. 

Didactic Instructors:

All didactic instructors must hold a current state or national EMS Instructor certification, be candidates for either state or national EMS Instructor certification and achieve certification within 6 months of beginning to teach for PERCOM.  This does NOT preclude Coordinators or the Program Director from selecting and utilizing guest instructors who are considered experts in the field of expertise on which they are teaching or are physicians.

Didactic instructors for PERCOM will not be placed in a lead instructional role unless he or she has a minimum of 1 year of active experience as an EMS Instructor or received training through PERCOM’s EMS Instructor course and have been cleared by the Program Director to function in a lead role.

Didactic instructors must maintain current EMS Instructor certification and/or current certifications/license in the area of specific expertise.  All associated certifications or licenses must be kept on file and updated regularly in the instructor’s file in the PERCOM office.

Skills Instructors:

All skills instructors must hold a current state or national EMS Instructor certification, be candidates for either state or national EMS Instructor certification and achieve certification within 6 months of beginning to teach for PERCOM.  This does NOT preclude Coordinators or the Program Director from selecting and utilizing guest instructors who are considered experts in the field of expertise on which they are teaching or are physicians.

Skills instructors for PERCOM will not be placed in a lead instructional role unless he or she has a minimum of 1 year of active experience as an EMS Instructor or received training through PERCOM’s EMS Instructor course and have been cleared by the Program Director to function in a lead role.  Some exceptions may be made for skills instructors with less than 1 year of active experience as an instructor if he/she completes a full orientation to skills training for PERCOM and if he/she is not in the lead skills instructor role.

Skills instructors must maintain current EMS Instructor certification and/or current certifications/license in the area of specific expertise.  All associated certifications or licenses must be kept on file and updated regularly in the instructor’s file in the PERCOM office.

PERCOM does not discriminate against any person based on age, color, disability, gender, gender identity, marital status, national or ethnic origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, or veteran status.  For faculty, staff, and student employees, this applies to all employment decisions, including selection, benefits, compensation, tenure, training and educational programs, transfer, promotion/demotion, layoff, return from layoff, and termination.

Any PERCOM faculty or staff member has the right to make a complaint of discrimination. In cases involving harassment, the harassment policy should be followed.