The academy is designated as the lead emergency medical services training agency. Its duties include: A. administering formal emergency medical services training conducted in New Mexico, other than training provided by other approved emergency medical services training programs; B. furthering the knowledge of emergency medical services education; C. securing a physician as its medical director to advise it in medical matters and to serve as liaison to the state emergency medical services medical director and the medical community as a whole; D. supporting, promoting and conducting scholarly research regarding emergency medical services; and E. reporting and publishing emergency medical services information. History: Laws 1993, ch. 161, § 7; 2003, ch. 243, § 10. ANNOTATIONSThe 2003 amendment, effective July 1, 2003, inserted 'emergency medical services' preceding 'training' in the introductory sentence; substituted 'formal emergency medical services' for 'all basic life support' in Subsection A; and added Subsections D and E.
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