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I believe it is more important that the setting of the scenario be realistic than the moulage. If someone is supposed to be in a car, they should be in an actual car, not in folding chairs in the classroom. If someone is supposed to be in the mud, they should be in the mud, not a parking lot...

Very nice choice. The Master Classic, the Master Cardiology, and the Cardiology STC are the only Littman's worth having for field use.

Kinda depends on how you look at it. They are for-profit, so they will take anyone in order to keep the classes full. However, one of their chief instructors told me that most of their students are employees, and they get priority admission. That means most of the students do have...

Not really relevant, since so far you have not offered us any new ideas or new and differing opinion. When you do, that will be welcome. But right now, you're doing nothing but showing your ignorance. But we're used to it. This is one of the problems with having a 110 hour entry level. It...

I agree. It just doesn't seem to work out that way for quite a few people here. We can't go a day without a couple of people getting offended here, usually over something that didn't even apply to them.

Dude, get off it. Nobody cares what an expert you were at whatever industry you crawled out of, or how much life experience you have. That's old news. This is a new game. You know nada about EMS. You're in our house now. Don't come here with a couple of weeks of book learnin' behind you...

Then why are you wasting our time asking for opinions? :unsure:

My point exactly, lol. :P

I like Acadian. I really do. But their school is a lame patch factory. I've got a few friends who went that route and regret it. Your dad is right.

LOL! Blown off any feet lately?

So do most state cosmetology boards. Some states require more than that just to be a barber. Physical Therapists don't even perform invasive therapeutics, and they require a minimum entry level of a Master's Degree, with many entering at the Doctorate level. Nail technicians are required to...

ROFL! What is "respected" about Irving and Plano Fire? Their medics are patch-factory grads who were forced by their employer to attend, and operate in a Mother-may-I medical control system that has yet to lift itself out of the 1970s. ESD-1 is in the news for the third time in a year for its...

It's hard to believe you were told that in California, where Intermediate is almost completely non-existent. I think you are confusing Intermediate for the Roman numeral I, which is the California equivalent for EMT-B. Intermediate is also very rare in most of Texas. And the people who get...

Ontario, Canada has the right idea. Transfer services abound, and there are no regulations about who staffs them. They are not EMS, and no EMS training is required to work there. They are horizontal taxis with zero connexion to EMS. The U.S. should wise up in that respect and divorce EMS...

What was wrong with the opinions you read in all the other stethoscope threads you say you found here? Did you think the opinions had changed since this was last asked, just a couple weeks ago? Did you happen to notice that those discussions usually take place in the proper forum, and not the...

LOL! You obviously haven't been around long.

Isn't PGFD mostly volunteers?

Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen? :unsure:

Dumb, no. Ignorant, yes. Whether it is seventeen years or seventy years is irrelevant. Being an EMT-Basic does not result in the knowledge or context necessary to make informed and intelligent comment on the theories of ALS practice. And all EMT-Bs are rookies.

I do have to second that recommendation for all the reasons Linuss listed, except for one: High wages? I sure haven't seen it. There are a handful of non-fire systems that pay decent wages, but they are extremely competitive, and often medic-only. :unsure: Stellar non-fire employers...