In the two week period from November 1 to 11, 2011, workshops were held in the suburbs of Phnom Penh for 50 emergency medical technicians (EMT) from national and state hospitals, police departments and military forces. Under the guidance of two experts from Japan, the participants enthusiastically studied skills relevant to emergency situations.
In the first week, the group covered a number of areas of critical importance to EMT, including basic safety driving of emergency vehicles, safe guidance of emergency vehicles with the cooperation of ambulance teams, and emergency vehicle maintenance (inspections, servicing), and learnt about abiding by the law in a lecture entitled "Emergency Vehicles and Road Traffic Law" given by a Cambodian lawyer.
In the week after the basic training, there was On-the-Job training. The trainees were split into three groups, and stationed at three national hospitals around Phnom Penh (Khmer-Soviet Friendship Hospital, Calmette Hospital, and Preah Kossamak Hospital Through working in actual emergency environments, the trainees were able to observe at close range the situations they had studied at the workshops. Among other activities, the trainees rode in ambulances to the scene of emergencies.