I'm helping my son find an Emergency Medical Technician training
program. It would have to be an accelerated course held between May 9
and June 10. It should be in the Philadelphia region, within 15-20
miles of Merion Station, PA 19066. I did some introductory research. I
called the local Narberth Ambulance Co. They diredcted me to this
site: http://www.montcopa.org/eoc/MCEMS/Training_Institute/EMSTI_Home.htm
The shortest course they have is June-Aug. The Southeastern Chapter of
the Red Cross does not offer a course, neither does the Community 
College of Philadelphia. My local fire house, Union Fire Station,
suggested I call Narberth Ambulance. So I've gone full circle and I
need help.

I know from being certified in New Jersey, that there are a minimum of
120 hours needed for training by the state, not including practical
experience time (mandatory emergency room volunteer hours, etc.), as
well as coordinated simulations with Police/Fire (one weekend, we did
a disaster simulation with police academy students, as well as fire
academy students all cooperatively working on an overturned bus
extraction and treatment of very convincing "injured" Boy Scouts --
that in itself was a 6-8 hour training session). It would be very hard
to find a program which would squeeze this amount of training into
just over one month. Good luck though, and glad to hear your son is
trying to get certified!

skermit-ga