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Do you have uniforms already? If not, like most places, you should dress business casual.

There was an old thread on CARE Ambulance San Diego. Apparently they take walk-in applications at their office. If your objective is to get a job fast, make sure to apply everywhere. Can't stress that enough.

+1 on composite toe. Lighter than steel toe, and at least with the pairs I tried on, more comfortable than steel toe as well. I have a relatively inexpensive pair, 5.11 ATAC Shield 8" boots.

Barring unionized labor, which is a whole other can of worms, your pay in a job always corresponds to how easy it would be to find someone else to do your job. Given the oversupply of young EMTs in many areas around the US, companies have found that they don't need to pay a huge amount to get...

Casio makes some great utilitarian watches. I'd just advise keeping it inexpensive for on-duty watches (my rugged Casio watch was less than $20), since you never know where vomit/blood/other fluids may end up!

I'm usually pretty chill, but some of the things in this thread would definitely make me livid. The only one that happens with any regularity at my company is the lights-and-sirens-on trick if coworkers catch you leaving the rig unlocked. There was a time someone left a bedpan full of apple...

Yep, Compton Fire has its own ambulances. Last I heard, McCormick and Care provide backup as needed.

High school kid on a 5150 danger to self.

Doesn't mean anything. There's been people who passed with 120 questions, people who failed with 70. Since you took it on a Wednesday, you should get the results as early as tomorrow morning. Best of luck!

Yep, becoming certified as an EMT isn't all that difficult. Most people in my (weekend 0800-1700) class were working full-time, and I was a full-time student, so it should be doable if you are willing to put in the time and effort. Most companies do physical tests pre-hire, but if you're fit...

Ignoring other logical fallacies, you definitely can't compute the revenue per rig using those insurance figures, for several reasons: 1.- Many large private insurers pay as little as 80% of Medicare rates. I believe Blue Cross is notorious for this. 2.- Medicare is extraordinarily good at...

I may have gotten lucky, but between sending out all my applications and starting day 1 of orientation, I only had about 3 weeks (got 2 interviews, chose one of the companies). I'd suggest applying to all the companies in the area, even if they don't say they're hiring: at any given point...

In the modern health care system, everyone has to deal with billing. Even a large part of doctors' work is dealing with insurance companies and MediCare. Like it or not, the days where healthcare providers could focus on just patient care are over.

At least from what I've seen, unions in the EMS industry often don't provide huge wage increases. I have a friend who works in a unionized ambulance service in the same region as me, and the starting wage is less than a dollar more per hour, before union fee deductions. The benefits that my...

Also, not sure how it is in NYC, but be sure to apply to literally every company. Doesn't matter whether they say they're hiring or not, put together a serious application with as much of everything as you can. Go the extra mile and get your basic online NIMS, ICS 100, ICS 200, etc. all done...

Probably. From Alameda Fire's website:

Where I did my ride-alongs (LA County), McCormick had BLS (2x EMT) crews respond with ALS (LA County or LA City Fire). Fire would then make the call as to whether it would be a BLS or ALS transport; if the latter, one or two FFs would ride-along and a fire chase car would follow us to the ER. On...

I think it's important for medics to delegate tasks to EMTs in mixed medic/EMT systems. It's the same way in teaching hospitals, where even when an attending surgeon can easily do a procedure, he has the resident do much of the actual work: it's critical training, and gets the resident used to...

Yeah, it's been a confusing change. Neither the first DMV employee I spoke to nor my doctor knew what to do about that, had to go back afterwards and get the doctor to sign that new card...

Yep. Just one correction on the DL51; since January 2014, CA DMV has phased out the DL-51B "green card," so now you use this federal Medical Examiner's Certificate instead. I was confused for a while, and it didn't help that most of the DMV people were as clueless about the change as I was.