The Commission on Accreditation for Pre-Hospital Continuation Education (CAPCE) and the National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians (National Registry) today announced an improvement to the CAPCE Import Tool that will save clinicians time and increase accuracy when submitting continuing education courses to the National Registry during the recertification process, beginning October 1, 2024.
When a clinician imports a CAPCE-approved course into their National Registry transcript, the system will now automatically assign the course to the appropriate National Continued Competency Program (NCCP) domain(s) – airway, cardiology, trauma, medical or operations. Depending on the number of credits needed in each domain, the web tool can also assign remaining credits to other domains and NCCP components in a top-down order. This ensures the credits are efficiently and effectively assigned for the clinician.
“This will make the National Recertification process much easier and quicker for clinicians by automatically assigning the CAPCE-approved course to the needed domain and removing any guesswork,” said Bill Seifarth, chief executive officer of the National Registry. “This is one of the features clinicians have asked for the most, and we are happy to work with CAPCE to deliver it.”
“By mapping CAPCE courses to the appropriate NCCP domains, we have eliminated one of the biggest hurdles in the National Registry recertification process,” said Jay Scott, executive director of CAPCE. “We made big advancements in 2018 with the automatic import of courses to the National Registry and this takes us to the next level in assisting EMS clinicians. Collectively, we hope this upgrade in the data sharing process between CAPCE and NREMT makes the recertification process easier and more efficient.”
Clinicians will be happy to note this new capability will work with one, two, or multiple CAPCE courses. The clinician will simply select the appropriate course or courses from their transcript and the web tool will then automatically assign them to the appropriate NCCP domain, as needed.
Clinicians may manually override or edit the automatic course assignment, if needed. However, tests between CAPCE and the National Registry have shown that the feature likely will not be needed in most cases.
The new feature will go live on October 1, 2024, the beginning of the next recertification cycle for EMTs, AEMTs and paramedics. The new feature is just one of several enhancements made to improve the recertification process.
