How long is Paramedic school usually?

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Sorry if this has been addressed before -

What is the average time for paramedic schools in so cal? I have heard 1 year and I have hear 6 months. Is it better to do a 6 month course vs 1 year+? Thanks!
 
The longer the better. It's a lot of information to absorb, if you want to actually know what your doing and not just be an a+b=c medic.
 
The one I'm applying for is 37 weeks long, one 8.5 hour day a week. According to the application package, there will also be some Sunday sessions scheduled during those 37 weeks, but did not mention how many other sessions outside of our weekly class. Clinical, labs, and field internship will be at our schedule.

Total of 720+ hours (found the breakdown)

Didactic and Laboratory - 370 hours; Field Internship - 200 hrs.; In-Hospital Clinical – 150 hrs.
Classes will be held on Saturdays (a few Sundays will also be scheduled)
 
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Paramedic: Three years
Intensive Care Paramedic: Paramedic + one year
 
Here for ACP it is a minimum of 99 weeks. One week = 5 days at 7 hrs day. If done on a 7 month university year, (Sept - April with a Xmass and March break), 3.5 years. Just depends on how you want to divi it up. There is a lot of material to cover and a lot of clinical hours. In fact we do more clinical hours than that whole course.
Caveat Emptor.
 
Since you're not likely to ever find an EMS job in So Cal, I say the least time you can waste in school, the better.

But if you expect that you might ever actually work in EMS (most grads don't), then the 2 year degree program is the only way to go. Anything less is dangerous, especially in SoCal, where medic training is among the worst in the world.
 
Unfortunately Houston scoops the worst on the planet award for (1) it's use of a 12 week patch factory in the desert (2) its touting of the 90% pass rate at said patch factory (3) its behavouristic abandonment of the HCC course because too many firemonkeys failed and choice to send everybody to a patch factory rather than look at the people it was selecting to be Paramedics (4) its insistence that every new firefighter becomes a Paramedic and (5) having such a shockingly piss poor reputation that some has been poor vocationally trained ambo from the other side of the planet knows about it
 
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EMT was six months.

Paramedic was a year and a half.


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