What elements are required for a good paramedic program?

[Ella~Emt15136]

I'm signed up for paramedic school at a small community college. It runs 10 hours a week with 1 Saturday working the local hospital for 16 months. From the information that I'm reading, this doesn't seem enough.
Should I reconsider and attend a larger college and maybe heads towards an assoc. degree or is 16 months enough. I want to be a good paramedic and want to do this the correct way.
Any thoughts?
Thanks
ETA~~the course I'm enrolled in only requires high school diploma and EMT cert./no college courses (A&P)

 

[firecoins]

sounds fine.

 

[Ella~Emt15136]

Thanks~~I think I'm just nervous and second guessing myself.

 

[daedalus]

perhaps they teach A&P within the program itself? Ask.

 

[absolutesteve81]

A&P and a medical terminology course will help tons if you can find a way to take those courses. Don't worry if you can't find one coupled with a Medic program. Contact the schools in and around your area and see if they have any available on the days you arent in class for your medic program.

My program required A&P as a pre-req and I hated the first half of it. I kept making statements like "When, in an ambulance, will I have to pull out a microscope and identify what stage of mitosis a cell in?!?!?"

But that was just pure ignorance on my part. I realize now the importance of understanding cellular behavior. There were days after days in the actual medic program where the light-bulb above my head would blink on when hearing phrases like diffusion, carrier mediated transport, osmotic flow, etc...

As for the Medical Terminology....You'd be amazed how many registry questions practically answer themselves when you understand the terminology