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Do you guys feel its too early for a basic to go to medic school in 3 months after becoming one?
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I NEED MEDICS, MEDICS!!!
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I NEED MEDICS, MEDICS!!!
I feel it's too short but everyone has their own opinon on this subject. Try searching, basically half on here say you don't need experience and the other say you do. It's really opening a can of worms.
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Do you guys feel its too early for a basic to go to medic school in 3 months after becoming one?
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I NEED MEDICS, MEDICS!!!
So which NYC medic program are you considering?
Actually, the only ones I've seen saying <1 year is too short are people from the archaic system of California that requires 6mo-1year to begin with.
Seeing as CA represents a large portion of this board then it would make sense if half say yes and half say no. Maybe it is CA way of getting around having to teach less than other programs.
People tend to write off the intricacies of performing well at a basic level.
They take time to master. To even become aware of them takes time and because no one really teaches about the subtleties, there are a lot of people out there in EMS who focus on the bells and whistles and miss the basic preparation, planning, crowd control, set-up and on and on. The end result is chaos, catch-up and CYA. All while intervening in life and death situations.
Absence of knowledge and practical experience in these matters means you're essentially integrating the basics into an advanced formula when it should be the other way around. There's a lot of people out there thrust into advanced when they should be perfecting the basics. Personally, I don't want to be (because today I'm more likely to be your patient than your practitioner) the subject of your OJT.
I have spoken.
Did you do St Vincent's program off of the Horace Harding in Queens?
So which NYC medic program are you considering?
Personally, I don't want to be (because today I'm more likely to be your patient than your practitioner) the subject of your OJT.
If he is the only guy around or you have the choice of say a guy who did first aid or the 3 month course guy, do you still 'not want to be the subject of the 3 month guys OJT"?
Cool.i'm considering St. Johns in queens right of the 7 train. Easy commute from Manhattan.
Any skill mastered as a basic can be more easily and properly mastered once properly educated. Perfect practice makes perfect, imperfect or uneducated practice makes mistakes.