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specified in this chapter for supervision of an EMT-I, EMT-II, EMT-III, AEMT, emergency medical dispatcher, EMD or EMS instructor education course, emergency medical service, medevac service, critical care air ambulance service, or specialty aeromedical transport team;

(51) repealed 1/1/2022;

(52) “paramedic course coordinator” means an individual who is certified in accordance with 7 AAC 26.174 to fulfill the responsibilities set out in 7 AAC 26.176;

(53) “mid-level practitioner” means a person certified or licensed by the state as an advanced practice registered nurse or as a physician assistant;

(54) repealed 1/1/2022;

(55) “mutual aid agreement” means a written agreement that permits an emergency medical service to go to the aid of another emergency medical service within or outside the local service area, and to receive aid from another emergency medical service within or outside of the local service area, during multiple casualty incidents or other situations as defined in the agreement;

(56) “objectives” means instructional content or learning outcomes as part of the curriculum, course lesson, activity, cognitive knowledge, or demonstrated skill;

(57) “on-line physician” means a physician immediately available in person or by radio or telephone, when medically appropriate, for communication of medical direction to non-physician prehospital care-givers;

(58) “organization that provides basic or advanced life-support emergency medical services outside a hospital”

(A) means an organization, such as an ambulance service, rescue squad, fire department, or medevac service that, as one of its primary functions, provides basic or advanced life-support emergency medical services;

(B) does not include other organizations having ancillary emergency health or patient care responsibilities;

(59) “other organization having ancillary emergency health or patient care responsibilities” means an organization such as the community health aide program, the uniformed services, the National Park Service, the United States Forest Service, a logging camp, the Alaska Marine Highway System, the Alaska Railroad, or private corporation, that must provide services to individuals needing immediate medical care in order to prevent loss of life or aggravation of psychological or physiological illness or injury;

(60) “patient contact” means a contact by an EMT with a person who is sick or injured in which the EMT performs at least one of the following:

(A) patient assessment;