AK Paramedic Certification

[SinCityMedic]

Anyone work at a Paramedic in AK? I noticed in the application they want a MD in AK to sponsor you. How the hell am I supposed to do that? I don't know any MDs in AK. I'm NREMT-P in Colorado and Nevada as well as Intensive Care Paramedic in New Zealand (international was easier than AK!!)

I currrently work in Nevada as a Paramedic, AK seems like a huge pain in the booty! What is the deal? Help! :angry:

 

[akflightmedic]

Alaska was very easy actually.

You need to have NR-EMTP which you say you do. Yes you have to have sponsorship...as in you have to have a job/job offer BEFORE you get a license to practice.

Once the offer is made, you will get a temporary license while your MICP is being processed. There are not a lot of MICPs in Alaska....for example my MICP license was in the low 500s and this was in 2004. That means I was only the 500th or so MICP ever in the state.

Alaska relies heavily on EMT IIIs which are pseudo medics.

Very few areas of Alaska are paid departments as well.

 

[SinCityMedic]

ok that makes sense. I'm looking in southern/southeast Ak. Do you know of any services I could contact?

 

[akflightmedic]

Ketchikan....only option is Ketchikan FD--Rarely have openings
I was told back in 2005 that South Tongass and North Tongass were considering going paid, but keep in mind each department only has 1 station. KTN FD has 2.

Sitka--Sitka FD (2 stations)

Juneau (Capitol City FD)

Juneau always had ads for a couple years.

That covers the south and southeast.

You can look at Anchorage FD, Fairbanks FD and the Army Base there hires civilians as well.

Other than that, most all other areas are volunteer.

Kodiak had paid FD.

See the trend?? Do not expect to do only EMS....

If you want to do remote stuff, there are ads all the time for pipeline medics which basically means 2 weeks on 2 weeks off of total boredom but when the :censored::censored::censored::censored: hits the fan...you are slammed!

 

[akflightmedic]

Juneau Capital City

http://www.ccfr.net/

Ketchikan FD

http://www.city.ketchikan.ak.us/departments/Fire/index.html

http://www.northtongassfire.org/about.htm

List of all FDs in AK

http://www.50states.com/alaska/fire_departments.htm

 

[wandering_idiot]

I didn't see Central Emergency Services; they cover the Soldotna area and are a combo of paid/volly. They tend to be a little more active.

http://www.cesfire.org/

 

[SinCityMedic]

Thanks for the replys. I do have some fire experience, NV FFI, a bunch of
Random wildland FF certs. Do u happen to know if thre is reciprocity in AK?

 

[akflightmedic]

Fire reciprocity at the time was very easy, they were undergoing changes however and I do not know what the new rules are.

I was IFSAC and ProBoard, so I was granted automatically AK fire status.