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:sad:Ok thus may evoke some feedbackand sorry in advance for using this forum for a moan.
I read that the US emt sysstem is having recruiting problems, Well i am a senior British Paramedic with 20years under my belt who has been trying for the last 3 years to gain recognition by the NREMT of our skills and Training so as to enable me to move with my family to MN where we have relatives.
For those of you that are unaware UK paramedics practice there skills and drug therapy Autonamosly i.e no coms needed with base hospital physicians to give all drugs and treatments including I.O ,ATLS ,needle cric, and Pre hospital Thrombolysis with Heparin chaser.
I have studied the US skill mix and found that it is comparable to our own, we accept US paramedics with a short conversion course usually 1 week to cross over in drug therapy protocols etc so why not the other way round?
The NREMT want multiple tests and months of didactic training at a recognised US college at our own expense before we could even think of applying for a visa.
MN regulatory board have been very helpful but after 3 years of trying, every time it seems that i have reached the final fence the NREMT seem to put another behind it.
Could this be elite'ism not wanting to recognise us as equals in the field of Pre-hospital care?
I cant afford to take that much time off to and also pay all the associated costs !
I eagerly await response, maybe even someone from NREMT reads this and acually does look at the 800 pages of information and training documentation/certification that has been sent to them.
I read that the US emt sysstem is having recruiting problems, Well i am a senior British Paramedic with 20years under my belt who has been trying for the last 3 years to gain recognition by the NREMT of our skills and Training so as to enable me to move with my family to MN where we have relatives.
For those of you that are unaware UK paramedics practice there skills and drug therapy Autonamosly i.e no coms needed with base hospital physicians to give all drugs and treatments including I.O ,ATLS ,needle cric, and Pre hospital Thrombolysis with Heparin chaser.
I have studied the US skill mix and found that it is comparable to our own, we accept US paramedics with a short conversion course usually 1 week to cross over in drug therapy protocols etc so why not the other way round?
The NREMT want multiple tests and months of didactic training at a recognised US college at our own expense before we could even think of applying for a visa.
MN regulatory board have been very helpful but after 3 years of trying, every time it seems that i have reached the final fence the NREMT seem to put another behind it.
Could this be elite'ism not wanting to recognise us as equals in the field of Pre-hospital care?
I cant afford to take that much time off to and also pay all the associated costs !
I eagerly await response, maybe even someone from NREMT reads this and acually does look at the 800 pages of information and training documentation/certification that has been sent to them.
