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EMS Branch's AIDS curriculum reinstated again By JOHN
HULTGREN FRANKFORT — The Kentucky EMS Branch's AIDS curriculum has been reinstated again, apparently for the last time. In a memo dated March 16 to EMT instructors, Marcia Burklow, Supervisor of the Training and Certification Section, wrote: "Effective March 10, 1999 the "HIV/AIDS Course" CHS# 0200-746-M curriculum was again returned to the list of approved AIDS education courses." Last December, Kentucky's HIV/AIDS program again pulled approval for the Branch's HIV/AIDS course, following another incident where a certificate was issued without a name and, in another incident, an outdated certificate was issued. "Because of these multiple experiences of having the EMS Branch curriculum closed down statewide because of errors having occurred, the EMS Branch will no longer provide an AIDS education curriculum for EMT-instructors to use after Feb. 28, 2000, if it makes it that far," Burklow wrote. Medical professionals, including EMTs, paramedics, nurses and physicians, must complete an approved course during their initial training in order to gain licensure or certification. These same individuals must complete an approved course during their certification or licensure period to be eligible for recertification or relicensure.
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