Frequently Asked Questions
FOAMfrat is one of the nation's leading providers of accredited medical continuing education (a.k.a. CE hours or CEU's) to meet the licensing, refresher and recertification needs and requirements of EMS and nursing professionals.
FOAMfrat specializes in Continuing Education for EMS professionals: EMT's, Paramedics, AEMT's, Flight Paramedics and Emergency Nursing Professionals. Our content is fully accredited to meet state and national requirements for licensing.
When you register your account, you gain immediate access to an online, on-demand library of over 200 hours of continuing education content as well as live classes that all count toward your state and nationally required CE hours for your refresher. The content is accessible on any mobile device and allows you to get your CEU's at your own pace. The app also tracks your progress so you know exactly how many hours you've logged and how many hours you need. Once you've completed your needed hours, FOAMfrat automatically reports to national boards such as CAPCE to ensure seamless licensing renewal and provides you with proof of course completion for your records or to file with employers.
Medical professionals are required to get CE hours for licensing renewals and refreshers - shouldn't you ENJOY what you learn? FOAMfrat's continuing education content is some of the most professionally produced and engaging content available anywhere! We listen to our clients and produce the content they want to learn!
Yes. FOAMfrat Studio is a CAPCE-accredited provider, so our courses are accepted by the NREMT and by most state EMS offices for license and certification renewal. When you complete a course, your hours are reported automatically to CAPCE and posted to your NREMT transcript — there's nothing for you to upload. Certificates are also available in your account any time you need to submit them directly.
State requirements vary. Most states accept CAPCE-accredited hours, but some maintain their own approval process or require specific mandated topics. Our state page lists what your state requires, along with a link to your state EMS office for full details.
If you hold an FP-C, CCP-C, CFRN, or CTRN, our courses also apply toward IBSC and BCEN recertification.
Yes. As a CAPCE-accredited provider, we report your completed courses to CAPCE, which transmits them to the NREMT and posts them to your transcript. You don't need to upload anything yourself — just make sure your NREMT number is entered in your FOAMfrat profile, since that's what the report is matched to.
In some states, yes. We report directly to:
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Virginia
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Florida — through CE Broker
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Tennessee — through CE Broker
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New Jersey — EMTs only
If your state uses NREMT certification or NREMT reporting as the basis for licensure, your hours reach it through CAPCE's reporting to the NREMT, so there's nothing for you to submit there either.
For all other states, you'll submit your own documentation at renewal. Every course you complete generates a certificate that stays in your account permanently and can be downloaded any time.
Check our state page for how your state handles CE documentation.
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Our library grows every month, since we write and record new content continuously. There are currently 200+ hours of on-demand content, plus 150+ live classes we cycle through each year. The recorded hours alone are enough to complete a full NREMT recertification cycle, and they apply toward IBSC recertification as well. State requirements vary — see our state page for what yours requires.
Completed courses are reported through CAPCE to the NREMT and posted to your transcript, so there's nothing for you to transfer. Certificates stay available in your account for download at any time.
Access to the on-demand library, live classes, and your certificates continues for one year from the date of purchase.
Hours are accredited by the Commission on Accreditation for Prehospital Continuing Education (CAPCE) for EMS clinicians and by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) for nurses.
Yes. Every course in our library is individually accredited through CAPCE for EMS clinicians and ANCC for nurses, including the courses inside our IBSC track. Each course generates its own certificate, so the same hours can be applied to your NREMT recertification, your state renewal, and your IBSC or BCEN totals.
For IBSC recertification you can choose our 40-hour or 100-hour FP-C / CCP-C refresher. The 100-hour track covers your entire four-year cycle in one place. The 40-hour track works if you already have hours from other sources and need to fill the rest. We deliberately spread the IBSC content across more than the required 16 hours, because we didn't think the blueprint's learning points could be covered well in 16 — and you need 100 hours anyway. When you finish the IBSC section, you'll receive an IBSC-specific certificate to submit along with your individual course certificates.
A few things to keep in mind, since each body counts hours its own way:
IBSC requires 100 contact hours per four-year cycle, with at least 75 in the Clinical category and at least 16 Clinical hours from an approved review class. Up to 25 hours may be Operational. IBSC accepts ANCC contact hours at a 1:1 rate, so nursing-accredited hours count the same as CAPCE hours.
Hours must fall inside your certification period. CE completed outside the four-year window before expiration can't be applied.
NREMT has its own topic distribution across the National, Local, and Individual components.
State requirements vary, including mandated topics and limits on online hours. See our state page.
Within a single certification you can't submit the same course twice, but applying one course across different certifications is normal and expected.
Your subscription includes full access for one year from the date of purchase. That covers the entire on-demand library, every live class we run during your subscription year, and all new content we release along the way — the library grows monthly, and anything added during your year is included at no extra cost.
Yes. After three unsuccessful attempts, the NREMT requires official documentation that you've completed a remedial training program, and that requirement can be satisfied by completing the National Component of the NCCP model — 8 hours for EMR, 20 for EMT, 25 for AEMT, and 30 for Paramedic. Those hours have to fall into specific content categories, not just add up to a total.
Our learning paths are built to cover the National Component at each level, so you can follow the path for your certification level rather than assembling hours yourself. When you've finished, email your certificates to support@nremt.org
Yes. FOAMfrat Studio is accredited by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) and approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, so our courses carry nursing contact hours accepted by most state boards of nursing.
Our content focuses on emergency, critical care, and transport medicine, which makes it a strong fit if you work in an ED, an ICU, or a flight or ground transport program. If you hold a CFRN or CTRN, these hours also apply toward your BCEN recertification.
Certificates are issued on completion and stay in your account for download whenever you need them.
Yes. BCEN requires 100 CE contact hours within your four-year certification period, and at least 50 of those must come from a national nursing accrediting agency. FOAMfrat Studio is ANCC-accredited, so our hours qualify.
BCEN also requires at least 75 of your 100 hours to be clinical content specific to your specialty — flight and ground transport nursing for CFRN and CTRN. That's the core of our library, so our critical care transport content applies directly to the part of the requirement that's hardest to fill.
Two things to plan around:
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All hours must be completed before your credential expires. BCEN offers a late grace period for the application itself, but CE earned after your expiration date can't be counted.
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BCEN audits a portion of renewal applications, so keep your certificates. Ours stay in your account and can be downloaded any time.
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Yes. IBSC requires 100 contact hours over your four-year cycle, with at least 75 in the Clinical category and at least 16 of those Clinical hours from an approved review class. Up to 25 hours may be Operational.
We offer a 40-hour and a 100-hour FP-C / CCP-C refresher. The 100-hour track covers your entire cycle in one place. The 40-hour track works if you already have hours from other sources and need to fill the remainder. We deliberately spread the IBSC content across more than the required 16 hours, because we didn't think the blueprint's learning points could be covered well in 16 — and you need 100 hours anyway.
Every course is individually CAPCE-accredited, so each one generates its own certificate that also counts toward your NREMT recertification and state renewal. When you finish the IBSC section, you'll receive an IBSC-specific certificate to submit alongside them.
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FOAMfrat started off and is still a free blog and podcast for pre-hospital clinicians. We found providers enjoyed the FOAMfrat style of content delivery, and listening to podcasts on their daily commute became routine. What if clinicians could get credit for the content they chose to listen to? It is with this framing that we built our fully accredited EMS Library. The cost of the refresher helps FOAMfrat support the maintenance of our learning management system, assure proper accreditation, and routinely updating content.