SMEMSIC News

On March 24, a number of SMEMSIC board members attended a meeting in Lansing involving discussions on the direction the State should take with the Specialist License Level in Michigan.  This discussion, in part, is based on the fact that there is no certification level that is close to our specialist level with the national standards.  While it is clear that Michigan may move away from testing with NREMT, there is still a need to determine if the specialist level will remain as it currently is, be eliminated or have additional skills added to the level.

Prior to the meeting, a decision had been made to recommended to the EMSCC that the level remain as it is.  There was discussion during this meeting that there might be advantages of adding certain skill sets to this license level.  The issue will be discussed at the next EMSCC meeting in Lansing and it is unclear if the EMSCC will vote to make a recommendation on the matter or send it back to committee for further work.  SMEMSIC will try to keep all members up to date on the progress as further information becomes available.