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(C) ensure that the students are supervised by course instructors or clinical hospital personnel, such as physician assistants, nurses, and physicians;

(7) have written agreements with one or more advanced life support emergency medical services agencies that have a sufficient call volume to provide students with access to patients, distributed by age and sex, who present common problems in the delivery of advanced life support pre-hospital emergency patient care; under an agreement, an agency must

(A) provide evidence that adequate personnel resources exist within the EMS system so that the assigned student is never used as a substitute for EMS system personnel or as a required team member;

(B) ensure that the student is under the direct supervision of a physician or paramedic, licensed or certified in the state where the internship takes place, who has been designated the responsibility of supervision by the course medical director;

(C) ensure that the student is assigned to a unit that has the capability of voice communications with on-line medical direction and that carries equipment and medications necessary for advanced life support;

(D) ensure that each student’s performance is evaluated by the student’s preceptor at the end of each shift and that the evaluation findings are documented on a form approved by the department and provided to the student at the end of each shift and to the paramedic course coordinator at least once per week; and

(E) keep records concerning the types and numbers of emergency medical care procedures performed and whether each emergency medical procedure was performed competently;

(8) agree to limit enrollment to an individual who is currently

(A) certified by the department as an EMT-I, EMT-II, EMT-III, or AEMT; or

(B) certified by the National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians (NREMT) as an EMT or AEMT;

(9) agree to ensure that students are clearly identified, whenever they are in clinical instruction and field settings, by name plate, uniform, or other apparent means to distinguish them from licensed paramedics, other health professionals, workers, and students;

(10) agree to provide a plan to verify the student’s achievement of objectives stated in the didactic instruction, clinical instruction, and field internship portions of the paramedic curriculum;

(11) agree to provide graduates of the training course with evidence of successful course completion signed by the course medical director and the paramedic course coordinator;

(12) provide an attendance policy that delineates the number of hours of didactic