The Institute of Emergency Medicine and Forensic Studies runs the three-year Bachelor degree programme Medical Rescue Worker, whose graduates acquire professional qualifications for the provision of direct urgent care for ill and injured patients whose lives are in immediate danger within the scope of pre-hospital, inter-hospital and early hospital care. To broaden their teaching capabilities, students of the programme take part in first aid courses, provided by the Institute as a part of ESF projects, during primary school education or at individual events such as the Moravian-Silesian Health Days and other health fairs.

In the academic year 2008/2009, the Institute is responsible for the three-year combined (part-distance) Bachelor degree programme Social Pathology and Logistics of Field Risks. The goal of this programme is to train professionals capable of effective cooperation with all emergency units of the integrated rescue system and heightened public awareness of movement logistics in hazardous situations.

The Institute also participates in theoretical and practical instruction of first aid, acute states, pain management and self-defence for all other degree programmes of the Faculty of Health Studies and, within the scope of its first aid instruction programme, cooperates with all other faculties of the University of Ostrava.