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In the winter my volunteer service trains nearly every week. In the summer we train once or twice a month because of forest fire season with some of our member being employed to fight said fires. We jhave to constantly train practice our skill s. Learn new and better ways of doing treatments.

Now EMS and Fire now know what the Police have been going through with all the cop shows that have been on TV.

Here in my town we have 3 of our members who work in the local jails but they were hired as Corrections Officers. The NWT Corrections Service only hire RNs for medical services.

In Canada to be a paramedic the education is 3 to 4 years to be a ACP with 3 years being the average. Canadian post secondary courses dont require pre req like USA post secondary doies has those courses are taugh in High School in Canada.

In my service before we use the lifepack for BP and pulse we have to get a manual BP and pulse first. After we get it manulally then we can use the machine.

My service is volunteer and we respond to every call withing the corporate limits of the town. I have yet to be on a so called cool call. Mostly it's IFT between hospital and nursing homes. As well if the town did convert us to paid full time we would gladly go paid full time. We have...

Here in the NWT out of 20 or so communities only 7 have EMS and not 1 is ALS all BLS. Of those 7 only 2 are full time our capital city which is fire based or as my trsining officer puts it an ambulance service that does the occassional fire call. and our n2 largest community its a provate and...

My volly service used to issue red light for our POVs but took them back. When we respond to the ambulance station in our POVs when we get toned out we are not authorized to violate any traffic laws. My volly service we train on a regular basis. As for how often we go priority 1 lights and...

In Canada until the late 1990's the province of Ontario used to have grade 13 which was pretty much first year university. Ontario removed grade 13 to get inline with the rest of Canada.

Have you tried Turks and the Caicos they have expressed interest in joining confederation as a territory of Canada on par with Yukon Territory, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut Territory. They do want to be part of Canada so they might easier accept Canadian credentials for EMS down there.

That's because Canadian high schools and possibly British high schools teach the prerequisites as part of the standard high school curriculum.

Actually He might just be able to get certified as am ACP here in Canada with some additional training.

The University of Toronto at /scarborough offer a Bachelor of Schience in Paramedicine thats for Primary Care Paramedic and according to the UofT web site that degree can be used to enter the UofT medical school.

http://www.collegeofparamedics.org/ is the link to the licensing body in Alberta. The designation of EMT I is not a designation authorized by ACoP or provincial law. Look at the link I provided.

The body that regulates EMS providers in Alberta is the Alberta College of Paramedics. The designations that ACoP uses is as follows EMR Emergency Medical Responder which is equal to a EMTB in the USA EMT Emergency Medical Technician which is equal to EMTI in th USA EMTP Emergency Medical...

Th is OP is from Alberta where the EMT is equal to a us EMTI the alberta equal to US EMTB is the EMR.

I'm 45 and Emergency and MASH were some TV shows that inspired me to go into EMS. Also My late Mom was a nurse for a long time as well as 2 of my aunts were also nurses.

ACoP may be changing to a national exam I do mean maybe changing it's not set in stone. Unfortunately the mindset of ACoP is that even after the change EMTs will still be called EMTs not PCPs and EMTPs will still be called EMTPs not ACPs. This is from their membership who are EMTPs who believe...

Last year my mortgage was paid off. My sister and her 21 yr old live with me so they take care of some of the bills.

Even though salaries for EMS is better in Canada we are still the lowest paid of emergency service with Fire and Police making more, but EMS in Cnada are paid salaries they can live on.