What is the National Continued Competency Program?

The National Continued Competency Program (NCCP) was constructed using methodology similar to that of the American Board of Medical Specialties requirements and streamlines the recertification process into three strategic categories of continuing education: National, Local, and Individual.

The National Continued Competency Program encourages Nationally Certified EMS personnel to pursue life-long education while also providing state and local agencies the freedom to customize continuing education to meet local operational needs.

The National Registry continues to make improvements and we were one of the many organizations that came together to support the development of evidence-based guidelines. 

As part of the NCCP 2025 initiative, we partnered with the Prehospital Guidelines Consortium (PGC) who will provide open access to and/or summaries of all identified EMS evidence-based guidelines (EBGs) meeting the National Academy of Medicine criteria for high-quality guidelines. These evidence-based guidelines are peer-reviewed documents, provide a summary of the relevant medical literature and offer assistance in deciding many aspects of clinical practice.

The PGC recommends those who instruct individuals to incorporate evidence-based guidelines into their education and practice. The National Registry will include the use of these EBGs as part of our item writing development and we strongly encourage EMS Clinicians to incorporate these (EBGs) into the national component of the NCCP when recertifying. 

Locate the “2022 Systematic Review of Prehospital Evidence Based Guidelines” at: https://prehospitalguidelines.org/prehospital-ebgs-new/. The systematic review will be updated every two years and will be made widely available for all to reference and utilize.  

The PGC also offers additional resources on their website, including a reading list of EBGs which can be found at: https://prehospitalguidelines.org/ebg-resources/