51-Hour (American Red Cross) EMR Course

[Proud2Serve]

Is the 51-hour Emergency Medical Response course offered by the American Red Cross curriculum/ learning objectives included in any EMT-B course that you would take? Will I be missing valuable information/ knowledge if I went straight from the CPR/AED for Professional Rescuers to an EMT-B course without taking a First Responder course in between? Thanks for your feedback...

 

[CFal]

No, EMR is a step bellow EMT, it is not a prerequisite .

 

[ITBITB13]

If you take your EMT after an EMR, you'll just be relearning everything you learned in your EMR program. Save yourself the time and money, and go straight into an EMT program.

 

[joshrunkle35]

If your end goal is even possibly EMT-B, go straight to EMT. It was called Emergency Medical Technician-Basic (now, the "basic" is dropped but it's still the same class). It was called basic because it is the entry level class that provides all of the skills necessary to sustain life in a basic life support environment (and a lot of other things, too).

Emergency Medical Responder is a very brief overview of some of the skills that you would learn in EMT. It would be boring and redundant to learn them twice. Trust me, you'll have plenty of time to learn them.