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I know some people might think that I am crazy for wanting to work as an EMT-P and delay earnings as an MD, but I've been tossing this around in my mind for months. I've just decided to get opinions from others.
I'm a rising high school senior that will be applying to colleges this fall. My ultimate goal in life is to become a physician. I know it should be a stupid idea to delay becoming a physician, but for some reason, I [seem to] want to work as a paramedic for a few years before going to medical school. I really like EMS, or at least I'd like to think so. Maybe I'm in this phase because I'm only an EMT student and haven't worked actual EMS with 12s/24s/etc and the 3 AM calls for a fall/something minor. [I do volly for my local ambulance squad once a week and occasionally on weekends, so I do have some experiences with EMS life] But despite this, I feel like I would want to work in EMS. I think being the on "the front lines" of medical care and working in the field are what intrigue me the most.
The two variations of my life plan for the next decade or so are:
1. Go straight from college to medical school.
2. Go to a college where I can do paramedic school and complete the premed prerequisites simultaneously, work as a paramedic for a few years, then apply for med school.
I am considering attending programs where the paramedic curriculum is built into the bachelor's degree program [specifically University of Pittsburgh Emergency Medicine major and SUNY Stony Brook Health Science major with a concentration in Emergency Management].
Can anyone offer me advice/knock some sense into me?
I'm a rising high school senior that will be applying to colleges this fall. My ultimate goal in life is to become a physician. I know it should be a stupid idea to delay becoming a physician, but for some reason, I [seem to] want to work as a paramedic for a few years before going to medical school. I really like EMS, or at least I'd like to think so. Maybe I'm in this phase because I'm only an EMT student and haven't worked actual EMS with 12s/24s/etc and the 3 AM calls for a fall/something minor. [I do volly for my local ambulance squad once a week and occasionally on weekends, so I do have some experiences with EMS life] But despite this, I feel like I would want to work in EMS. I think being the on "the front lines" of medical care and working in the field are what intrigue me the most.
The two variations of my life plan for the next decade or so are:
1. Go straight from college to medical school.
2. Go to a college where I can do paramedic school and complete the premed prerequisites simultaneously, work as a paramedic for a few years, then apply for med school.
I am considering attending programs where the paramedic curriculum is built into the bachelor's degree program [specifically University of Pittsburgh Emergency Medicine major and SUNY Stony Brook Health Science major with a concentration in Emergency Management].
Can anyone offer me advice/knock some sense into me?