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Becoming an Authorized Training Center

ACLS Certification Association is Accredited by the AMA, ANCC, ADA, and ACPE and Offers Continuing Education Credits for our Courses.

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Jointly provided by Postgraduate Institute for Medicine (PIM) and ACLS Certification Association.

Ready to become an ACLS Certification Association Authorized Training Center and help support the CPR.com Initiative? We certify both brick-and-mortar instructors and online centers. Here is the process:

Join Our Mission

ACLS Certification Association along with our parent company CPR.com want to help you transform the way you go about teaching important life-saving skills. We do this by asking you to partner with us. We’ll help you by providing the curriculum so you can focus on making sure your students are prepared in providing these essential medical skills and interventions. It doesn’t matter if you teach at a physical brick-and-mortar location or if you are teaching entirely online, ACLS Certification Association helps you decrease your costs and maximize your margins. So, how do you go about getting started with us? Just fill out the contact form at the bottom of this page.

Brick-and-Mortar Instructors

Local instructors play an essential role in our training model. If you’d like to become an ACLS Certification Association Authorized instructor and teach in-person classes at a brick-and-mortar location, please fill out the contact box at the bottom of this page. When you become an ACA Authorized Training Center instructor, you will have access to our educational platform to provide enhanced life-saving medical training to more people and scale your business. After our customer service team reviews your application, we will contact you with more information.

Online Training Centers

For consideration as an online ACLS Certification Association Authorized Training Center, you need to fill out an application. Fill out the contact box at the bottom of this page to get started. After reviewing your application, our customer service team will contact you regarding the next steps.

ACLS Certification Association Authorized Training Centers take pride in improving patient outcomes through better education. To ensure our students receive the most up-to-date information, all training materials are carefully peer-reviewed by our expert team of healthcare professionals and medical review board.

What is an ACA Authorized Training Center?

The ACLS Certification Association created its online training network structure to allow training sites to offer you more options for providing ACA training online and reach a wider audience of first responders and healthcare providers.

Instructors can now use the ACA curriculum and digital training platform to improve patient outcomes through better education. Educating students and providing quality online training is scalable with this model.

Requirements for ACA Authorized Training Centers

An Authorized ACA Training Center operates with the authorization of the ACLS Certification Association (ACA) and CPR.com Medical Review Board and meets the following requirements:

  • Has a legal business name with supporting legal documents.
  • Teaches ACA courses in accordance with the latest official ILCOR Guidelines for CPR and ECC.
  • Maintains at least two (2) ACA instructors who train more than a combined 200 people each year. Each Instructor must complete the ACA Instructor Training Program and pass with a minimum 85% score. Instructors must agree to the terms and conditions of the ACLS Certification Association Medical Review Board standards and editorial process.
  • Acknowledges that the ACLS Certification Association and CPR.com own all rights to digital content and training material. The ACA Training Center must supply all equipment needed for teaching ACA courses, including mannequins that meet feedback device requirements, if using the ACA platform at a brick-and-mortar location.
  • Follows minimum technical requirements:
    • Utilizes the most recent version of the top three Internet browsers.
    • Maintains knowledge of and effectively uses ACA Authorized Training Center applications, such as the ACA free learning center, eCards, video library, study guides, etc.

Thank you for your continued support in spreading the ACLS Certification Association’s mission of improving patient outcomes through better education.

Supporting the CPR.com Initiative

Powered by CPR.com, the ACLS Certification Association is dedicated to the development of high-quality training programs in efforts to spread the ACA mission of improving patient outcomes through better education around the world. A portion of proceeds from each course sale goes towards the CPR.com Initiative of providing free CPR education and training to everyone worldwide via the CPR.com online educational platform.


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    Amplify Your Reach

    What if you’re not interested in becoming an Authorized Training Center but still want to show your dedication to providing lifesaving education? Our Affiliate Program is the perfect fit. This program offers an ideal way to extend your business — even if you aren’t a part of the healthcare sector. This is your way of showing your network that CPR and advanced life support instruction are important for everyone. Plus, it will help you generate revenue and grow your business.

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    Our Affiliate Program takes pride in bringing together individuals devoted to spreading essential emergency care education to as many people as possible. It’s not just a mission — it’s a passion. Even if you’re not directly involved in healthcare, the Affiliate Program makes lifesaving skills more accessible.

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