To those who don't want to make EMS a career, what do you plan on doing

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Hello all! I'm just about decided on taking my basic classes before going onto medic school next spring, however I'm having some doubts.

There is no doubt in my mind that I will enjoy EMS at some point(maybe not as a basic :glare: ) but at what point in my life will I have enough of EMS??

I'm only 19, so I figure I have a long road ahead of me before I break down but then what? I know there aren't many of you will think EMS is a career, so what do those planning on doing in the other life??? -_-
 
spraded said:
I'm only 19, so I figure I have a long road ahead of me before I break down but then what? I know there aren't many of you will think EMS is a career, so what do those planning on doing in the other life??? -_-
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Medicine...
 
EMS for a couple of years. Then move over to fire. And then retire from that. So that puts me at about 55-60 years old. Hopefully from that point have enough money to live the rest of my life without working. But that is all open to change.
 
Current gameplan: Finish Medic class in October, work off my tuition repayment for 1 year, and start towards an AA in.. something related. After that, hopefully I'll be fit for duty as a police academy recruit and wind up serving with special assignments in Tactical Medic and Motorcop.

:cool:
 
spraded said:
Right...but what job title exactly? PA? RN? RT? etc...
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Osteopathic physician. RNs and RTs don't practice medicine in this context.

Edit: To clarify, "medicine" in terms of a field or profession means physicians and surgeons. Personally I'll accept the argument that PAs practice a restricted form of medicine. NPs and RNs practice nursing (by their own admission). RTs practice respiratory therapy. EMTs and paramedics practice prehospital emergency care. RTs are not medical providers. EMTs and paramedics are not medical providers. RNs and NPs are not medical providers.

The "practice of medicine" in terms of the nuts and bolts consisting of history and physical exam->diagnosis->treatment is something that everyone does with the question being, "How broad is the scope of practice? What is the depth and breadth of their knowledge?"
 
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I married a firefighter...lots of money, lots of days off, lots of kids.

:)
 
DarkStarr said:
Current gameplan: Finish Medic class in October, work off my tuition repayment for 1 year, and start towards an AA in.. something related. After that, hopefully I'll be fit for duty as a police academy recruit and wind up serving with special assignments in Tactical Medic and Motorcop.

:cool:
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Thats what I had in mind aswell(minus about the special assignments). My ultimate goal in life has always been to be a sworn officer. Unfortunately, my county requires that new recruits hold an associate degree or 60 college credits. Luckily, with medic school, I will cover the minimum requirement.

I figure, I'll be in EMS for 10 years max and I'll learn things only learned in EMS and no body will be able to take those experiences away from me, good or bad. ^_^
 
Will probably end up is Respiratory Therapy or Nursing.
 
I started off as a basic, from there got my paramedic. I joined the U.S. Army shortly there after as a Healthcare Specialist aka "Combat Medic" got my BHS, went through the Inter-service Physician Assistant Program and am now a PA. Mind you I am only 26 right now.
 
I'm going to do something unrelated to healthcare, so I doubt you want to hear about it. =)

Check out the bls.gov site as they have interesting & fairly accurate articles on a variety of professions, including healthcare ones.
 
Still undecided between PA or MD. Leaning more towards PA :)
 
Medicine. MD specialty General Surgery subspecialty Surgical Critical Care & Trauma. Just finished Nurse Practitioner school, taking my Acute Care Nurse Practitioner boards on Friday the 13th of May.
 
This is something I've been debating since I've started my paramedic program. As I go about my clinicals in the hospital, I feel the urge to without a doubt continue on with my education. At the very least I feel pressed to go to PA school. Then, everything permitting, do a bridge program to an MD. Here recently, there have been a few of these bridge programs from PA to MD/DO come about in the US. So, establish myself as a PA and once I feel the need then I'll go about one of these programs. Plus, given how new these programs are it'll give them a chance to work the kinks out and become more established. I know before the past couple years, there have been some bridge programs like this but few far and between. They were sketchy to say the least. So having my paramedic will give me some great experience but I would like to move forward into the great beyond and the ever changing art & science of medicine. B)
 
Still though, I doubt you've got much to worry about. Is there any such bridge program out there to knock off some school time for you?
 
medicstudent101 said:
Still though, I doubt you've got much to worry about. Is there any such bridge program out there to knock off some school time for you?
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No. I don't waste time on bridge programs. I didn't bridge from RN to medic. I did both RN and Medic from the ground up. I finished my bachelors of biochemistry as my pre-med curricula, I wouldn't take a Nurse Practitioner to MD bridge course if one did exist.
 
JPINFV said:
To clarify, "medicine" in terms of a field or profession means physicians and surgeons.
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Just got a good laugh out of the seperation :)
 
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