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Paramedic internships are tough. Your new at this and you learned the text book way of doing things and now you have to apply it to the real world, and may have a preceptor whose been doing all these things so long its second nature. I think Interns tend to want to overtreat patients. I...

Are you applying to Paramedic school or Medical school? Almost nobody in my Paramedic class would have met those requirements, and I went through a well established community college program with a good reputation. For some Paramedic schools I think the only requirement is that you have an EMT...

From my experience PHTLS was a waste of time for Paramedics, everything in it was covered in Medic school way more in depth. As an EMT Basic you might gain some limited benefit from it, but I still wouldn't ever pay money for it.

Hopefully you can do your clinicals with an ALS truck. I got to do both ALS and BLS in my EMT third rides and looking back BLS was a total waste of time, taking grandma to Dialysis with the occasional BS 911 call, with a couple of 20 year old know nothing know it all johnny rescue EMT Bs giving...

EMT experience is beneficial....up to a point, and that point is reached fairly quickly in my opinion, especially if all your doing is IFTs and the occasional BS call. Still, I think you should have SOME medical experience before doing Paramedic, even if its CNA experience, tech or medical...

Who cares if his boots look new, if he's an EMT Basic student he IS new, nothing is going to change that. Id look down more on a brand spankin new student with scuffed up boots than one who has them spit shined, but that's just me. The only one who would care would be some doofus 20 year old EMT...

I hate to think about it, but if I sit down and crunch the numbers, Paramedic school was close to a financial disaster for me. I already had a decent paying full time job when I started it. but I had to cut back my hours due to the huge number of clinical hours we had to do, the classroom time...

Operating the stretcher? How long did that take you to figure out as a Basic exactly? I did something like 300 hours of ALS ambulance time as a Medic student counting my internship, and that's pretty close to the norm I think. Exactly how much time do you think it would take a Medic student with...

It really depends on your financial situation and whether you can get an EMT gig that's flexible but still pays the bills(not easy). Just keep in mind Paramedic school is stressful and time consuming, so you have to weigh the benefits of EMT experience with the added stress of starting a new...

I think Brady makes some of the best EMS educational material out there, Ive had good luck with them. I think Garcia was good for 12 lead.

Experienced EMT Basics tend to be worse in Paramedic school based on what I've heard and how it went with my class. EMTs don't do any of the skills that people tend to fail at in Medic, they often pick up bad habits, and they think that their Basic experience means they don't have to study and...

My EMT course was 5 months going 2 nights a week for 4 hours and every other Saturday for 7 hours. Plus 80 hours of clinicals and ride time. It was probably overkill in hindsight, but it doesn't hurt to go above and beyond. 5 weeks seems like it would be way too fast considering the amount of...

Paramedic school is a whole different ballgame. The difficulty and stress level is 10 times greater. As others have pointed out OR rotations can be really mentally taxing because you need to get those intubations, and its not like tubing a mannequin, and its not like tubing a patient in the...

Just go with the flow and try to learn what you can. They cant very well fail you for not doing something they never told you to do. Be thankful, my program required continuous signatures for skills performed and assessments done, so hospital clinicals was a continuous exercise in annoying busy...

I think its beneficial to have SOME EMT experience before becoming a Paramedic, but there is a point of diminishing return where working as an EMT really doesn't add much to your knowledge or skill level that would be beneficial as a Paramedic, and that point is reached fairly quickly, probably...

Well its not a question of whether they need me. An RN needs a Nursing student like they need a hangnail, but they still are used as precepters and generally do at least a decent job of teaching them during clinicals.

I'm not really complaining about RNs being mean. The meanest precepters I've had by far were Paramedics or RNs that were/are Paramedics. But while they may not have minced words or shyed away from letting a student know it if they screw up or aren't doing things good enough, most of them also at...

Oh we had more than just patient contacts, we had plenty of objectives that had to be done and evaluated, in fact I believe its a requirement for all Paramedic programs. its not like EMT Basic where you just do x amount of hours. You need so many IVs, meds, advanced airways, assessments etc...

What I don't understand is that if it is a regional or hospital thing, why were the RTs, techs, CRNAs, docs PAs and other staff in the same hospital usually great at teaching Paramedic students and volunteering information? I learned more from the ER docs than I ever learned from any of the...

Why are they teaching airway and cardiology at the same time? We covered these subjects separately and focused exclusively on each one while covering them. Seems to me it would be a lot harder to learn both simultaneously, although airway is generally a lot more straight forward and more skills...