Team Australia EMS (Emergency Medical Services), the only Australian team in the games, competed against teams from more than 20 different countries at Baltimore last month, as part of the pre-hospital emergency care Olympics.

Mr Noble, who is based at the Cairns Ambulance Station, said the team compiled information on national registration schemes in Canada, America and South Africa for Ferno Australia and Paramedics Australasia (formerly the Australasian College of Ambulance Professionals), in a long-overdue bid to establish national registration in Australia.

Mr Noble recently spoke about the importance of introducing national registration to the Australian Health Ministers Advisory Council in Brisbane, which is reviewing options for strengthening regulation requirements for unregistered health practitioners.

"The doctors are registered, the nurses are registered, do you really want your father who is having a heart attack being treated by an unregistered person," he said.

"The Ambulance Service has its own quality assurance but if that fails there’s nothing there to protect the patient or the public at the end of the day.

"If we want to be seen as a profession, like nursing, we have to play catch up with the rest of the medical sector."