Paramedic Information

Oakton's paramedic classes (FIR 221 and FIR 224) are offered through cooperative agreements with Advocate Lutheran General Hospital and St. Francis Hospital. Program participants are selected through a competitive process that involves submission of an application and a range of assessment tests and interviews.

Advocate Lutheran General Hospital
Applications are now available for an April 29, 2013 start date*.
(Download application now: Word)
Applications are due on Friday, March 15, 2013 no later than 3 p.m. at either:

• Advocate Lutheran General Hospital
  Emergency Medicine Services System
  8820 Dempster Street, Niles, IL  60714
  
  or
  
  
• Oakton Community College
  Division of Mathematics and Technologies (Room 2180)
  1600 East Golf Road, Des Plaines, IL  60016

St. Francis Hospital
Applications will be available in late summer (application due date is September 30, 2013) for a tentative January 7, 2014 start date.

To be placed on a waiting list or to receive a hard copy of the application form, contact either St. Francis Hospital EMS Office at 847.316.6117 or Advocate Lutheran General Hospital EMS Office at 847.723.5430.

For more information, contact Stanley Kimura, department chair, at 847.635.1827 or kimuras@oakton.edu.

*Pending approval from the Office of Academic Affairs.