EMT - B Isn't this abnormal 3 1/2 months

[Scmedic08]

Mine was at a tech college but we started when in the summer and lasted 6 months going 2x week for 4 hours. I remember a lot more ride time than that though, I believe I did 10x 8-12 hr days on the truck. That truely helped when I got out in the real world.

 

[Rosebit78]

I got mine with the army. Our class is 6 weeks minus some days here and there.

 

[LanceCorpsman]

mine was 5 weeks. 8 hours a day. Got to love the military

 

[joshrunkle35]

Is that all? For how long? And only TWO rides????? And its a 'well known college'????????
Sorry but to me it sounds more like an Emergency First Responder course than an Emergency Medical Technician course. (FYI, my EMT course was nearly 5 months long, 480 contact hours plus 100 hours ride-a-long (ALS) and 10 hours emergency room).

480 hours? Wow! My state only requires/required 130 hours plus about 20 hours of practicals. Sounds nice that you got a really in depth course, but I don't think that is anything near the norm in most places.

 

[Chad]

Mine is 252 hours. 2 x 4 hour nights a week, 8hrs. every other Saturday. 20hrs. ER & 20hrs. EMS clinicals. Started end of September and will end the first week in March. The program is through a regional hospital not a college or tech school.

 

[Charity]

The one I'm going to take is 3x a week, about 4 hours a night for a semester, so if mine is anything to go by, yours sounds pretty standard!

 

[cchamberlain97]

Is that all? For how long? And only TWO rides????? And its a 'well known college'????????
Sorry but to me it sounds more like an Emergency First Responder course than an Emergency Medical Technician course. (FYI, my EMT course was nearly 5 months long, 480 contact hours plus 100 hours ride-a-long (ALS) and 10 hours emergency room).

if you don't mind me asking, where did you take your course?

 

[Martyn]

Fortis College, Mulberry, FL...they are no longer there though