Recent content by emstim84

I was referring to your claim that the cert classes such as AMLS employ a cheerleader philosophy which suggests they don't offer sufficient education in what they are certifying. Anyone can look up the tuition of CCs so I don't see why you would need to provide evidence for that anyway. However...

Interesting. Thank you for reminding me why I stopped viewing emtlife.com awhile ago...I forgot about the personal attacks which the forum claims is against the rules yet seems to be quite prevalent. What I find hilarious is your claim without any supporting evidence to back up your accusation...

I'm not working full-time, but I'm a full-time student at UC Davis while I'm doing P-school so I'd imagine it's pretty similar. Honestly, it's not that bad. The hardest part is getting the reading done since you may be assigned as much as 200-300 pages to read in 4 days on top of studying...

NCTI offers all these certs not as "filler" but to get the paramedic student in the proper state of mind. I took AMLS as an EMT-B for CEs before enrolling in the paramedic program at Roseville NCTI, and as far as I'm concerned, the mindset that AMLS teaches is far more important than the...

Hey guys, I have a quick question as far as peds assessments go in p-school and beyond. After about 5 months of didactic, when we have roughly 2 months to go, they're going to have what they call a "kids day". For the last 4 hours of the 8 hour days we have, basically everyone is invited to...

Hey guys...I'm Tim (as you probably figured out by my screen name :P), 24 years old, and currently going to UC Davis and paramedic school at NCTI in Roseville, California. I've worked as an EMT-B for a little over a year before deciding to go to paramedic school. You're probably wondering why...