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Wheel said:
Today has been a good day. Three services called to schedule interviews. Only problem is that I have to schedule interviews halfway across the country while working a 24/48 schedule.
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I've done that before... good luck lol. Try not to pull your hair out.
 
DesertEMT66 said:
Ouch that sucks. When I hopefully start school in January 2014 it is a 12 month long program from start to end. Right after your last day in the classroom you are already set up with your clinical rotations and your field preceptor.
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Strange. We started in the field after the second week of class. Learned some monkey skills and then we were sent out to practice them, learning along the way. Our clinical and field was concurrent with didactic. By the end of class, all the skills were second nature and we could function as medics. Seemed to work for us.
 
DEmedic said:
Strange. We started in the field after the second week of class. Learned some monkey skills and then we were sent out to practice them, learning along the way. Our clinical and field was concurrent with didactic. By the end of class, all the skills were second nature and we could function as medics. Seemed to work for us.
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That is exactly how my program was. 18 months followed by internship, for the same amount of material and experience seems horrible The only plus I can see is that you can correlate all that you learned a little better, but it's not like they give you much to put together, anyway.
 
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All of our hospital time was done concurrent with didactic. Then the last 6 weeks of class was review and registry prep. That's when our internship was (250 hours). So the very last day of coming to class, we were done with everything. And just had to take the final. Now I'm already approved to take the registry. Just have to wait till payday for the 150bucks.

And my program was only one day a week. And the first 3 months were spent on anatomy and physiology. That's why it was so long. Most around here are 10-12 months.
 
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Anjel said:
All of our hospital time was done concurrent with didactic. Then the last 6 weeks of class was review and registry prep. That's when our internship was (250 hours). So the very last day of coming to class, we were done with everything. And just had to take the final. Now I'm already approved to take the registry. Just have to wait till payday for the 150bucks.

And my program was only one day a week. And the first 3 months were spent on anatomy and physiology. That's why it was so long. Most around here are 10-12 months.
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Ah, okay. Yeah, that's not so bad.

Oh and by the way, Congrats Anjel! :D Doesn't seem like 18 months since you were talking about being nervous to start :P
 
TransportJockey said:
I've done that before... good luck lol. Try not to pull your hair out.
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Hopefully it'll be worth it. I'll get a decent bump in pay if I get a job. Plus I'll have lower cost of living, less crime, and closer to recreation (and the in-laws). Im not looking forward to moving again, but I think the experience will be worth it in the end.
 
Ahhh ok. The program I'm going to is 3 days a week from 9-5 (I believe). Classroom goes from January to June. Clinical (164 hours) is from June to August. August to December is field time (600 hours). They also have a full time program that is 4 days a week and 10 months long.
 
Wheel said:
Hopefully it'll be worth it. I'll get a decent bump in pay if I get a job. Plus I'll have lower cost of living, less crime, and closer to recreation (and the in-laws). Im not looking forward to moving again, but I think the experience will be worth it in the end.
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Sounds like a good thing then :) Once I finish my degree I'm seriously debating a cross country move again. Looking in CO, TX, and the East Coast (plus WA state)
 
Robb said:
So how a paramedic program should be run then...
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Not saying how a medic program should be run. Just saying that it sucks that you have to wait an unknown amount of time in order to get a preceptor.
 
TransportJockey said:
Sounds like a good thing then :) Once I finish my degree I'm seriously debating a cross country move again. Looking in CO, TX, and the East Coast (plus WA state)
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I've applied in Texas and a couple of east coast states myself. I'm waiting to hear on a couple of ems degree programs that are online as well. If everything works out I'll be very busy come this fall.
 
Wheel said:
I've applied in Texas and a couple of east coast states myself. I'm waiting to hear on a couple of ems degree programs that are online as well. If everything works out I'll be very busy come this fall.
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NM isn't bad either :p A BS in EMS is available from UNM School of Medicine lol. Good luck to ya either way
 
DesertEMT66 said:
Not saying how a medic program should be run. Just saying that it sucks that you have to wait an unknown amount of time in order to get a preceptor.
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And that your school is on the bottom of the waiting list because the company that owns your school is worried about the upcoming county contracts they might lose so the JC programs get first dibs with your company....you know, rather than guaranteed placement with said company since they own your school.
 
Addrobo said:
And that your school is on the bottom of the waiting list because the company that owns your school is worried about the upcoming county contracts they might lose so the JC programs get first dibs with your company....you know, rather than guaranteed placement with said company since they own your school.
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Yep that sounds about right :P
 
DEmedic said:
Trust me. You can't even tell there is zucchini in there. Walnuts, cinnamon, sugar, eggs … not one bad thing in there.

And if not for zucchini bread, what the hell would we do with all those zucchini?
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Grill it!! Mmm... I love me some grilled zucchini :D Or sauté... Or cook in a cast-iron with some onion, garlic, and topped with mozzarella.... Damn. I'm hungry now. :lol:

I had a recent bad experience with zucchini muffins. I nearly gagged. They, however, lacked many of the wonderful ingredients you listed :P
 
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Cool cake!
 
DEmedic said:
Strange. We started in the field after the second week of class. Learned some monkey skills and then we were sent out to practice them, learning along the way. Our clinical and field was concurrent with didactic. By the end of class, all the skills were second nature and we could function as medics. Seemed to work for us.
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Ditto this. My medic program was structured in the same manner. The further you got into the program, the more you were able to do because skills were added along the way as we finished each block.
 
Perforated proximal LAD = bad day
 
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