Starting fall semester 2010, CR's North Coast Paramedic Program will be offered at CR's McKinleyville Instructional Site, 1520 Center Road in the McKinleyville Shopping Center, a 25-minute drive north from the main Eureka campus.

To accommodate the schedules of full-time working people, the fall and spring semester class will meet on Fridays from 2 to 9:30 p.m. and Saturdays from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. CR's fall semester begins on Saturday, Aug. 28.

The 33-unit, one-year program, only available to people who already are at least EMT-1 certified, will run fall and spring semesters and a summer internship. The fall class is an 11-unit class, spring is 13 units and the summer field experience internship is worth 9 units.

The North Coast Paramedic Program is nationally accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs.

For details, check out the CR North Coast Paramedic website at www.redwoods.edu/departments/paramedic call program director, Doug Boileau at 822-3353. One can also contact Janet Humble, CR Health Occupations Administrative Assistant at 476-4216.