Paramedic Training

Miller Children’s Hospital is one of the few centers in the region that specially train paramedics in pediatric emergency care. Paramedics-in-training receive a multi-disciplinary experience that takes them beyond the emergency department and into situations that train them to be skilled and knowledgeable when caring for children.

Paramedic students work with the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and Pediatric Intensive Care Unit where they learn to care for critically ill newborns and children. Back in the emergency department, students interact with patients and their families as well as practice what they learn on mannequins. Usual training lasts for three days, each day consisting of at least four hours.

Miller Children’s Emergency has trained students from UCLA’s Daniel Freeman Paramedic Education Program, Paramedic Training Institute, El Camino and Mt. Sac colleges, the Long Beach Fire Department and Seal Beach Lifeguard Department.