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JANS – AMR Central Mississippi graduated ten candidates for certification as emergency medical technicians (EMTs) from the operation’s latest in-house paid course. After passing a mandatory national exam, each will become an EMT in the Hinds County EMS system. Eight will work full time at AMR with starting base pay of $41,200 per year plus overtime. The two other graduates work full time at the Jackson Fire Department. The JFD personnel are eligible for part-time EMT positions with AMR.
The group is the seventeenth since 2019 to complete AMR’s EMT course at its Jackson facility. Calling the program “Earn While You Learn,” AMR hires strong applicants and pays them to take the ten to twelve week course. The program enables job seekers to launch a career on AMR’s ambulances and reduces the pressing shortage of EMS caregivers in Hinds County…