I'm currently enrolled in an EMT-B class in Northern Virginia. The class is about 3 months long, so I feel as though it's safe to say we are rolling through all the material very quick, being the local firehouse takes 9 months. I'm studying as much as I can. I was just wondering if you guys had any study tips. I'm currently working a full time job as well, so I don't have all day to study. What worked for you guys? I'm just worried I won't be able to remember all of the information.
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3 months is about average. Our department puts basics through in 5 weeks, with one week being clinicals.
As for studying, reading your textbook is of course paramount. It would also behoove you to read the chapter before you cover it in class.
You may also try notecards. Just making them will help; then go through them at your leisure.
The information really isn't all that difficult. If you put any effort into it at all, you should do fine. That 5 week class our guys go through has over 90% first time pass rate, and 100% overall pass rate. If those guys can do it in 5 weeks, 3 months should be ample time.
Best of luck.
As for studying, reading your textbook is of course paramount. It would also behoove you to read the chapter before you cover it in class.
You may also try notecards. Just making them will help; then go through them at your leisure.
The information really isn't all that difficult. If you put any effort into it at all, you should do fine. That 5 week class our guys go through has over 90% first time pass rate, and 100% overall pass rate. If those guys can do it in 5 weeks, 3 months should be ample time.
Best of luck.
I used Anki flashcards. The software is free for computers and there's also a paid iPhone app. Whenever I had a few spare minutes I would review the cards. It's set up so that you review the cards you're least familiar with more often than the cards you've mastered.
You could also study with classmates and quiz each other. Besides that, it was easier for me to remember test material when I could apply it to real situations. Reading the scenarios on the forum helped, as well as ridealongs.
You could also study with classmates and quiz each other. Besides that, it was easier for me to remember test material when I could apply it to real situations. Reading the scenarios on the forum helped, as well as ridealongs.
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That's on you. No one can help you with that. If you don't have the motivation and integrity to knock out an easy class what makes you think you have the integrity to work in EMS?
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No, Robb is right. Only you can find the motivation to do the class. We can give you all of the study tips in the world, but we can't make you want to do it.
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How do you want me to motivate you? I have no idea who you are or what you're about, I have no information as to what it would take on my part to motivate you, because I don't know anything about you.
This job requires motivated individuals. Every EMS job description I've read generally has "self starter" or something similar in it. We operate on our own without supervision. There are plenty of times you could easily say :censored::censored::censored::censored: it let's go home and leave someone in a bad situation because you didn't put in the effort to walk down that embankment or to check the entire house for a way in, asking neighbors and what not for a key rather than just saying "UTL, no one is home."
That's why I said what I said, you don't like it that's your problem.
It doesn't take someone on the internet to tell me I can be a real :censored::censored::censored::censored::censored::censored::censored:.
This job requires motivated individuals. Every EMS job description I've read generally has "self starter" or something similar in it. We operate on our own without supervision. There are plenty of times you could easily say :censored::censored::censored::censored: it let's go home and leave someone in a bad situation because you didn't put in the effort to walk down that embankment or to check the entire house for a way in, asking neighbors and what not for a key rather than just saying "UTL, no one is home."
That's why I said what I said, you don't like it that's your problem.
It doesn't take someone on the internet to tell me I can be a real :censored::censored::censored::censored::censored::censored::censored:.
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Not to pile on, but motivation in and of itself needs to be internal. We can provide tips for improvement on techniques, knowledge, stories, and help with our collective experience, but we can never substitute for someone who doesn't want to do the job in the beginning. If you've lost interest, quit! It's not like you have a huge investment of money, time, or effort in on this partially completed EMT course. Walk away now and go find something else you're truly interested in. You will thank yourself, and so will your potential future patients and colleagues in EMS. The last thing any profession needs is a brand new worker who is already burnt out and doesn't want to be there.
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While the other responses are blunt, they aren't inaccurate.
Online courses are not for everyone and you might feel differently in a classroom setting.
Regardless, any pursuit will be difficult to focus on without an endgame in mind. Assuming you haven't, might I suggest asking to take an observation ride with an EMS service so that you can gain some perspective on what you are trying to achieve?
Perhaps that is the motivation you are missing...seeing what the educational effort is leading up to.
Online courses are not for everyone and you might feel differently in a classroom setting.
Regardless, any pursuit will be difficult to focus on without an endgame in mind. Assuming you haven't, might I suggest asking to take an observation ride with an EMS service so that you can gain some perspective on what you are trying to achieve?
Perhaps that is the motivation you are missing...seeing what the educational effort is leading up to.
This forum has plenty of stuck up basic Emt who are like 10 years still as a basic burnout bashing others don't sweat them they are all negative
There's a great Emt flashcard book it's all white online
Some good Kaplan books at your local library should help
Read the definitions of the chapter and understand then usually the test is about those anyways
Study grp with someone
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To motivate your self you should find someone who does this for a living, see if they will study with you. you gotta love it or there is nothing to be motivated about. EMS is not for everyone and I don't think less of folks who find its not for them.
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I'm curious as to who you're referring to, since nobody who replied to him has anywhere near 10 years, none are basics, none are burnt out, and nobody is bashing anybody. Nor are they negative personality types. Everything anybody has replied to him/her is absolutely correct. Do you want us to lie or throw out complete BS about how he was born to do it and needs to stick with it no matter what? What posted do you find exceptionally negative, wrong, or "burnt out"? I may be wrong and you're not referring to anybody, in which case that comment is completely out of left field and has no bearing to the conversation. The rest of your post follows exactly as we said. You are able to provide study tips, but nothing you posted addresses that posters concern about not having the motivation to continue. That is on him.
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I hate those stuck up EMT-Bs with all that experience! They always argue with my paramagician skillz.
I was in 8th grade ten years ago. Maybe freshman year.
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You're such a prick, Rob!
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Hey, it's hard to paramagic with some peon questioning your authoritah.
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Yea. My bad haha. Real :censored::censored::censored::censored:ty week.
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