{"id":391235,"date":"2026-09-05T09:38:37","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T09:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/391235\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T09:38:37","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T09:38:37","slug":"mdc-expanding-its-ems-program-with-location-at-north-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/391235\/","title":{"rendered":"MDC Expanding Its EMS Program With Location At North Campus"},"content":{"rendered":"

North Campus is slated to be Miami Dade College\u2019s third location to open their doors to the school\u2019s emergency medical services program.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Registration is expected to open later this fall, with classes starting in the spring semester. The North Campus site joins the program\u2019s<\/a> existing hubs at Medical and Homestead campuses.\u00a0<\/p>\n

At the onset, the North Campus program will accept a cohort of 18 students who will attend classes and labs together. That number is expected to grow as the program does.\u00a0<\/p>\n

On Aug. 21, the North Campus gave the community a sneak peek into what the facility will offer. Located on the second floor of building 7, the $1.1 million facility will consist of five labs, two lecture halls and a control room\u2014when it\u2019s fully built out.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The control room will offer a realistic environment where students can demonstrate their skills, while instructors observe them behind double-sided windows.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It will allow students practice with technical mannequins that simulate human anatomy, along with health devices such as IVs, EKGs and non-rebreather masks.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat sets Miami Dade College\u2019s EMS program apart is how closely the education is connected to the real-world demands of emergency medical services,\u201d said Evelyn Rodriguez, the senior director of campus administration at North Campus, who is overseeing development of the space at the campus.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Fabio Nascimento, the Chair of Health Sciences program at Medical Campus, said student demand led to expansion of the program at North.\u00a0<\/p>\n

For example, students at North Campus\u2019 Fire Academy get emergency medical technician certification. Now they can stay at the campus for the training rather than go to another MDC site.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cSo many students wanted to be at the North Campus and stay there, and we simply could not provide the physical space,\u201d said Nascimento, an MDC alum who\u2019s worked at the college since 2013.<\/p>\n

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\"New<\/a>Sneak Peek: North Campus President Fermin Vazquez talks during an event on Aug, 21 that gave the campus community a sneak peek into what the emergency medical services program hub at the campus will offer. NATHAN CENAL\/THE REPORTER<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"North Campus is slated to be Miami Dade College\u2019s third location to open their doors to the school\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391236,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[156427,123,125,124],"class_list":["post-391235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-emergency-medical-services-program","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}