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Where I come from there are several community colleges that offer the EMT basic class. Now one system requires 40 hours of ride time, the other class only required 25. The class that required 40 hours also showed up on our rigs and in our ERs and had a list of skills that they had practiced and signed off on and were allowed to preform. The class that only required 25 was told they were just to observe. Now I understand that it is based on the student and their willingness to try to learn new things. But how can these two programs that are literally 30 miles from each other with the likelyhood of having to work on a rig with these people make their teachers feel comfortable. If one of my students sat in a chair in my ER and just watched, there would be reprocussions. So I think that the system does need to be more uniformed in their requirements. I would be glad to work with one of the new basics that came from the 40 hour school but I would be skeptical of the 25 hour school.
Where I come from there are several community colleges that offer the EMT basic class. Now one system requires 40 hours of ride time, the other class only required 25. The class that required 40 hours also showed up on our rigs and in our ERs and had a list of skills that they had practiced and signed off on and were allowed to preform. The class that only required 25 was told they were just to observe. Now I understand that it is based on the student and their willingness to try to learn new things. But how can these two programs that are literally 30 miles from each other with the likelyhood of having to work on a rig with these people make their teachers feel comfortable. If one of my students sat in a chair in my ER and just watched, there would be reprocussions. So I think that the system does need to be more uniformed in their requirements. I would be glad to work with one of the new basics that came from the 40 hour school but I would be skeptical of the 25 hour school.