Renew your EMT, Advanced EMT, or Paramedic certification

What you need for Renew your EMT, Advanced EMT, or Paramedic certification

We recommend that you complete and submit Step A and Step B in the recertification process by February 15, 2020 in order to receive your EMT card by April 1, 2020.

• Check the license verification website to ensure your recertification has been completed.  Please note that you are not recertified until eLicensing displays your 2022 expiration date.
• An expiration date of March 31, 2022 on NREMT.org does not mean you have completed your recertification.

Cards are printed and mailed weekly, and you should receive within ten days of recertification.

Recertification instructions

• EMT-Basic recertification instructions (PDF)
• Advanced EMT recertification instructions (PDF)
• EMT Paramedic recertification instructions (PDF)
• Unaffiliated and Out-of-State EMT recertification instructions (PDF)
• One-Year Alignment instructions (PDF)

More info for Renew your EMT, Advanced EMT, or Paramedic certification

Before you receive your new certification card, you can check if you have been recertified online. If the online verification system documents that you have been recertified, you may work on the basis of that proof. We allow for electronic verification. This is referenced in Massachusetts Regulations at 105 CMR 170.285 (c) and (d).