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I'm looking for some advice for a total noobie <--- me :'k

Little story about me:
I'm a year 18 year old male (turning 19 next month) from a small country town called manteca. My height is around 5'5 or 5'6' (so i'm pretty short D:) and i weigh about 135lbs. I also used to volunteer at a local hospital for over 6 months and have some awards and certificates from doing so.

Little deeper: when I was 17 I had graduated high school (was homeschooled my senior year to help take care of my parents) and had applied for a University I had gotten into, it was CSU Stanislaus located in Turlock(about an hour from where I live), California. Anywho, I was accepted into their nursing program and had also had scholarships I had earned and everything was paid for through that and financial aid but there were things (long story) that held me back and ended up not going.

Here's my issue:
Now I am going to be 19 years old and I want to become enrolled in some type of EMT schooling before I turn 20 but I have honestly no idea how to do that. I have tried looking into local community colleges and they had offered some courses in the past but are now taken out due to budget cuts. So i'm at a lost. Where does one usually look for these type of things? Do I ask a ambulance place? And If there are what would I ask them? Are there schools that specialise in this? I'm clueless.
I also would like some workout advice, as I am going to get a gym membership next month and not sure what exercises i should be doing. I usually run at 5 in the morning everyday for an hour but that's about all the exercise I do.

Thanks for taking the time to read all this! Hah.
 
Livermore EMT: 7/1/13-8/24/13: M/W 6pm-10pm & Sat 9am-6pm

found at NCTI.
 
So after a bunch of running around yesterday trying to find a school I found one called NCTI
Are they decent?
 
DayDreamerJT said:
So after a bunch of running around yesterday trying to find a school I found one called NCTI
Are they decent?
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I'd have to say that they're worse than some, better than most. Think of NCTI as a company with many satellite locations...

Why not look again at Nursing School? If you've been accepted once, you may be accepted again fairly quickly.
 
Not hating on you Akula but if he's looking into EMT school why recommend nursing? I know he said he was accepted but didn't expand on why he don't go, with everything paid for. To me that reads "I decided that's not what I wanted" but I've been wrong plenty of times.

At the EMT-B level there honestly isn't a huge difference as far as schools. Yes some do the bare minimum while others go above and beyond but the fact of the matter is its an entry level course with not a ton of content.

The biggest horror stories I hear about NCTI is medic students finding internships since they aren't given one through AMR (who runs NCTI). That's a moot point for basic and intermediate/advanced students since there is no internship portion.

OP, look at other community colleges. I think you're the first person I've ever met that said they couldn't find an EMT course in CA.
 
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