Ways to stay on top of your skills

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rhan101277 said:
I have a PT job as a basic. Right now I am only working maybe 3 or 4 days a month. I hope to get more soon. I am concerned about forgetting stuff, so I go over my school book and anatomy stuff on the weekends. I re-take old tests just to see if I can still remember. I seem to go good on all of it, guess I just need to try to go volunteer somewhere.
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Yeah, volunteering is a great way to get more experience if you have the time. It sounds like you're keeping up your education, so the next step is just getting more runs under your belt.
 
amberdt03 said:
and my advice would to be the quicker you stop thinking you are a god, the better your career will be. and as for your "least educated of the crew" i've taken a&p 1, which is what you've taken in medic school, i've taken pharmacology, which talks about more drugs than you learn in medic school, i am currently taking a&p 2, which goes way more in depth that anything you learn in medic school, and i'm taking microbiology, which isn't even talked about in medic school. so because of those classes i am more knowledgeable in certain aspects than a lot of medics that i work with. to me you seem to think about nothing but money for your company. there are calls that don't warrant als treatment, so why bill them for unnecessary treatment that they wouldn't need.
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Since you edited after I had already responded to the attack, let me say congrats on getting more education, but you are the exception not the rule. Most basics pop off yet only have their 2 week first aid course to base their comments on. Also any Paramedic program worth a darn requires A&P 1&2, microbiology as well as many other courses. So your statements actually only apply to diploma mill medics who are still more educated than 95% of the basics. Also if you have taken time to get the necessary A&P1&2 why not get your Paramedic so you can do more than talk down to your uneducated Paramedics and actually help your patients.
 
rmellish said:
Yeah, volunteering is a great way to get more experience if you have the time. It sounds like you're keeping up your education, so the next step is just getting more runs under your belt.
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Actually many companys will not give you work credit for time as a vollunteer and some services will not hire people that were volunteers.
 
Seems like some people can't follow instructions, so

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