How to Become an AHA Course Instructor

The American Heart Association (AHA) and ACLS Academy always look for healthcare professionals to conduct life support course training. If you’re passionate about healthcare, feel motivated to facilitate learning, and find it easy to make complex concepts more understandable to others, being an AHA course instructor might be for you!

How to Become an AHA Instructor

Becoming an AHA course instructor is easy! The first step will be consulting with the American Heart Association Training Center to determine whether that Training Center accepts new instructors. Once an Authorized Training Center has accepted you, you’ll complete the Instructor Candidate Application for the Training Center before enrolling in an AHA Instructor Course.

To become an Instructor in a given course, you must have current AHA provider status in that discipline (ACLS, BLS, PALS, Heartsaver).

Once you’ve signed up for the AHA Instructor Course, you will take the online essentials course and complete the didactic classroom course in the discipline before being monitored teaching a class within six months.

Instructor Courses at ACLS Academy

At ACLS Academy, we offer four Instructor Courses: BLS, Heartsaver, ACLS, and PALS. Each didactic part of the course is approximately 4-6 hours long.

Once you complete the course and are monitored teaching a class, you will become an instructor. As an instructor, you will have access to the most current emergency cardiovascular science, course updates, training resources, and tools and can teach AHA courses in your discipline.

To learn more about becoming an AHA course instructor, contact us today!