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I'm somewhat in the same boat, I work a career job (department head, can sometimes end up long hours) and am doing EMT. I don't know how other programs work but it ends up being 4 hours of class time per day, about 3 hours of homework, and 8+ hours of work in a day. It can be a load, but you...

I'm only a week and a half into EMT school myself and I am already seeing what you are saying. Wife is an RN and I was piggybacking some of her learning when she was in school so I knew about 2% ahead of class starting, but I've been really noticing the building process. Yesterday/today was...

How has this been working for you? I've been a professional chef for 20 years, and part of my training in culinary school was in nutrition. Feel free to drop me a line with any questions, I'll do my best to help ya out! FWIW I am a big fan of a Paleo lifestyle, or near-Paleo.

That's where my head is at! Vindication! ;P

I complee agretely.

Thanks for the articles @DEmedic, they offered me some nice insight into how people are feeling on the education front; incidentally there was some interesting dialogue about this education piece on the EMS Mentoring Society's FB page today. Even as a noob I am in agreement with the view that...

Anyways, that s**t was funny.

Not at all @DEmedic, I am all about curiosity and questioning because I am new and from what I can tell there is a pretty sweet body of knowledge to draw on around here! :D Even just as a student and not a seasoned vet I think that there are serious limitations/baggage that go along with only...

I'm smellin' what you're steppin' in @redundantbassist , so let me ask you and others a couple of questions, since I am an uber-noober (and mayhap we won't end up waxing too philosophical on this subject) Why is the system set up this way? I understand an EMTB is educated to a basic level of...

Going to fire school and one of my buddies from class is a medic, classmate asks him how he likes being an EMT. When I came to I could smell brimstone and something had peeled the paint from the walls of the squad bay.... ;P

I won't front, it can be intimidating (thinking about) posting on here. I am new and starting Basic school in a couple weeks, then medic school next fall, and I generally don't fear asking a question because ancora imparo and all that... But y'all can be like mother sharks eating their young...

Shots fired!

I LOVE this approach!!! As a newbie I understand that I have a lot to learn, but after speaking to some of my fellow students during fire school I think that there is a tendency among the volunteer organizations in our area to function more on the level of the second part of your reply: "BTDT...

Thanks Ken, This is pretty similar to how our department trains, although medical training is department-wide as we don't have a seperate medical team. I don't know what the "standards" are for medical practice for paid or volunteer departments across the country, but in our department we are...

Hey y'all, I wanted to pose a question related to FF/Medical training and seek some feedback. This is a cut and paste of the question I asked on another site, and it's slanted more toward the FF side of the job, but since I am beginning the process of moving into the EMS life full time I...