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I'm with a campus-based EMS system that only works as first response, so we don't get posted anywhere but we do spend 12- and 16-hour shifts in the station. When I'm not walking around campus, I've been working through a small library of Nintendo 64 games in the station. If I'm not doing that...

Stopped at 70 and passed!

Class was integrated into my high school's curriculum as an elective course. Book cost me $70, the practical skills exam $75, and the written exam $70 (or the other way around...) In all, $215 or $220. Bachelor of Science in Emergency Medical Services Management? More than enough to make me cry.

♪ We, are, family! ♪ ♪ I got all my medics with me! ♪

After securing the backseat patient in the KED and extricating him from the vehicle, I would have the patient moved onto a stretcher and have only the patient's legs released, then secured to the stretcher and transported. Patient would be supine.

Very impressive! I kid you not, I did not learn this until my junior year of high school.

My uncle and cousin are both firefighters, and I can definitely say that both were major influences on me when it came to choosing a career (although I didn't reference them in my EMS-as-a-calling post :p ). I felt a little more comfortable with EMS than firefighting, though, so I settled into...

If you asked me three years ago about considering a career in EMS, I would have laughed and said that it wasn't my thing. I really wanted to be a forensic scientist throughout high school, and before that, a detective. Taking the First Aid merit badge in Boy Scouts piqued my interest in...

You might be a member of EMTlife.com if...

I use these with my patients. The design keeps their mind off of their ailment for a little bit. No zippers, no fuss either! Highly recommend.

"Hi!", a (late) introduction written by PK_Jim. Hi! I'm Jim, an Emergency Medical Responder (EMR, Connecticut's First Responder) and an EMT-B candidate (passed practicals and applying for the written!). In the fall, I'll be heading to college up in Massachusetts to major in Emergency Medical...

I've joined up with your petition. I'll be moving into MA for college in September with a Connecticut EMT-B certification, and will be attaining my paramedic license (is it a license or a certification? :huh: ) while in Massachusetts as part of my degree. I'd be forever joyful if there was...

Congratulations! I'll be going for my own written in a couple of weeks. On a scale of 1 to 10, how severe--er, how difficult was the test for you? :p

I would be deathly frightened of the EMT who did his job for the adrenaline rush. Skydiving is for that kind of thing! I like the feeling that comes with helping people, and I always liked medicine and science, so I put the two together and took an EMR (Connecticut's first responder) course two...

I'm actually going to be heading to Springfield College (MA) to major in Emergency Medical Services Management in the beginning of September (just after my happy 18th). By having taken the course and passed my tests to get my certification, I will be exempt from the two-semester EMT course and...