Starting -P program in March

[thatJeffguy]

1-March, actually, I'll start my Associates Degree: Paramedicine classes.

I've some college under my belt, but it's a decade old.

I'm thinking I'll purchase an A&P textbook and workbook and tyr to work through as much as I can.

Any other suggestions?

 

[DrankTheKoolaid]

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This depends on your program and if it is a medic mill with watered down degree attached to it or not. Find a real Anatomy 5 unit w/lab and real 5 unit physio with lab. Micro and Chemistry also. You will thank yourself for it later.

 

[thatJeffguy]

It's an 8 month program, 1400 total hours. Three days a week classroom, two days clinical.

Thanks for the advice, I'll look into those courses this afternoon.

 

[46Young]

It's an 8 month program, 1400 total hours. Three days a week classroom, two days clinical.

Thanks for the advice, I'll look into those courses this afternoon.

No disrespect, but that sounds like a cert program. You may be okay with college level A&P and pharmacology. Beware of the cert program's in-house watered down onw week pharm and two week A&P. If that sounds really brief, that's because it is.

When you say Assosciate's Degree, this is what comes to mind:

http://www.emtlife.com/showthread.php?t=19212

It's no less than two years.

 

[GothamEMS]

I say go with the motivational speaker/ "morality coach" thing, and use paramedicine as a fall back

 

[thatJeffguy]

No disrespect, but that sounds like a cert program. You may be okay with college level A&P and pharmacology. Beware of the cert program's in-house watered down onw week pharm and two week A&P. If that sounds really brief, that's because it is.

When you say Assosciate's Degree, this is what comes to mind:

http://www.emtlife.com/showthread.php?t=19212

It's no less than two years.

It's for an Associates Degree in Paramedicine. Five days a week, eight hours a day, 1-MAR - 31-OCT.

 

[46Young]

It's for an Associates Degree in Paramedicine. Five days a week, eight hours a day, 1-MAR - 31-OCT.

Strange. My cert program, given through MY Methodist in Brooklyn, ran 13 months, had 16 hours of class/wk, and an average of 18 hours/wk of clinicals after the first month or so. I don't know the exact amount of hours, but it should exceed 1600 or 1700. Just call them and they'll tell you what their program entails.

A college ought to have classes outside of the core curriculum, such as PSY, SOC, ENG, MTH, A&P, Pharm and such. And degrees are typically referred to in credit hours, not classroom hours. For curiosity's sake, could you please provide us with a link to your college and it's EMS AAS curriculum?

If you're just doing the core curriculum and then doing the other classes after graduation to go from cert to degree, then that's another story. Actually, that's pretty much my story.