I have a hardon for more pay on oilrigs, and an online course with you yanks is the perfect solution
As to A&P the site says their A&P course needs to be passed before you can start the EMS itself.
An email reveals all the rest. I don;t have full details, another chap looking into it told me second hand but its 400hrs or so itemised into transport/hospital Obgyn, ER etc. with minimum successful intubations, IV's etc. Hands on training at two community colleges.
Regards online training my take is this.
If a lot of people end up dying or a lot of online paramedics starve to death without finding work , then natural selection will wipe these courses out.
As it stands this has not happened, they have increased ,so these courses are working at least 'okay'.
Either that or they must be controlling the media and hiding bodies their students create or something
You want to take the full extreme, try a commonwealth country(UK, Aus, NZ, canucks) where things are going to 3-4 year fully degreed Paramedics with higher protocols, no med control needed, tons of drugs available, same pay as RN's. And needing logbooks, references, interview boards just to get licenced etc
And having visited most these countries as safety officer I don't see what the big fuss is.
As I said no one is killing a great deal more people than any other, and people are getting jobs with whatever their required national training was.
Is this online Vs community classroom Vs bach degree student argument really that big a deal?