If it makes you feel any better mate I am spending my free time studying a basic chemistry book.
Yuk......
Van der Waals force thats about all I retained.
That was the worst five-hundred dollars my parents ever spent. :lol:
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If it makes you feel any better mate I am spending my free time studying a basic chemistry book.
thanks a lot. i hope to walk your path one day but after reading this thread i think i'm not ready to go through medic school. I still got a lot to see as an emt... and being employed in OC its hard to see the full spectrum of calls. mostly bls/cct/dialysis.
thanks again for starting this thread i will also started reading the texts you mentioned.
hey cawolf, how was the schedule for your pre course? I'm thinking about applying for it to take it and see what happens with that, but i wanna work while im taking that, if its possible
Hey - old thread back to life! Medic school has been going well. I finished didactic with a lot of time and effort but I completed it - which made it all worth it. The class started with 25 and 13 finished to move onto clinical. Clinical was two months of free-time almost. I studied and had a pretty low-stress time getting my skills and assessment practice in.
I am currently three shifts into my field internship. This is a very challenging time as I have no fire experience and I am interning at LAFD. It is a great experience to have but it is very high stress and no free time.
Did you make a decision on what school you are going to?
great to hear. since the last post from last year i've been aiming for RCC, but up until recently i decided to reassess how i felt about mt.sac. its a lot closer, cheaper compared to RCC i believe, and all horror "stay away" stories aside Sac is known to churn out dialed medics.
whereas RCC i was all for it until i heard a story that a classmate's friend's personal account was "if you want to be a competent medic don't go to RCC. RCC will pass almost anybody." that didn't sit well with me. additionalyl i heard stories about riverside ems; fire medics clashing with private medics and medics clashing with ER RNs. doesn't sound healthy in promoting educational growth.
we'll see. i'm getting all my certs recerted so i can submit apps to mt sac and RCC. both have june dealines.
thanks again. good luck.
*oh, when you said interning with LAFD was challenging and you have no fire experience are you implying that you have no 911 prehospital experience as an EMT-B with an ambulance company?? if so i was wondering the same exact thing because my current experience is all IFTs. i do have an interview with CARE coming up so hopefully that may all change soon.
you would be surprised actually what people fail on; its actually math and a&p that takes most people out, it has nothing to do with the lectures, its the simple stuff that alot of people overlook that get failed on. There are mandatory pass/fail tests in the actual program, like the drug calcs and what not, and thats what gets a good amount of people. And i mean it is what it is, they even tell you beforehand that you'll be doing alot of studying on your own, and i mean, its really no different from any other paramedic school, what you put in is what you get out of it.
Throw that AAOS A&P book away!
Get yourself a decent book like Marieb and read it back to front, up and down and all around, then do it again.
The Lippincott 12 lead ECG book is also great, they have a red one and a brown one, get the brown one as it's better.
A basic chemistry book could also be useful
Throw that AAOS A&P book away!
Get yourself a decent book like Marieb and read it back to front, up and down and all around, then do it again.
The Lippincott 12 lead ECG book is also great, they have a red one and a brown one, get the brown one as it's better.
A basic chemistry book could also be useful
RCC will pass anyone? we started with 33,24 made it to field and I believe 20 or 21 made it through field. Here's the deal, RCC is not a hit 80% or you are done school, they offer remediation and do have more "chances" than most programs, but not to the point of any idiot passing. People who were doing this just for FD didn't make it and the people who somehow made it through didactic with the bare minimum didn't make it through field. There are a lot of extras with RCC(uniforms, community service, PT(kind of))but I know I heard before I went that they made you pick up trash on the freeway,which is true if you waited til the last minute to get your comm. svc hours, but I got mine by doing presentations at HS career nights or volunteering at Ronald McDonald House. I felt RCC was a good program, lots of mentoring, a very anti- "purple-box medic" program.
EDIT: I would also run screaming from any program that has you intern in LACo. Too many FD-games, terrible protocols, and along with OC, some of the most ***-backwards EMS in the US.