What is the hardest part of school?

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I was thinking about stress as it relates to education.

What do you think was the most stressful part of your EMS/healthcare or professional education?

How did you cope with it?

How did it work out?

How would you do it differently if you had to do it again?

If you could change something about the system or class or program to make it easier, what would it be?

I realize of course that education stress in not seperate from the rest of life's stressors, but I would like to keep the topic a bit more narrow than "how do you deal with life?"
 
During medic school, I also attended a night fire academy, and lived part of the week at a station closer to school (I attended a community college program that was 75 miles away with no dorms). In retrospect, I wouldn't have tried to do it all at once.
 
The hardest part about education is retaining it.

The next hardest is picking out real world variance from wrote text learning.

My solution is to keep on reviewing and try to supplement with the most up to date concepts.
 
Seperation..

Trying to seperate the instructors field advice and the actual book way of doing things. Both are great, but I think the first half of the course should be about passing the test and the second should be about what really happens/works.
 
Why sounding cool on the radio during clinical mentoring of course! :D

Brown says the hardest part was putting theory into practice but thankfully Brown had some awesome clinical mentors.
 
The hardest part of medic school for me was memorization of protocols and practical exam scripts. I think it would have been easier for me if I'd viewed protocols as region-specific implementations of medicine, rather than medicine itself. As for the scripts, I think sequencing of steps is overrated, just as it is in the field.
 
For me it's the drive. This time through medic school I'm driving 75 miles one way to class, usually after a 12 or 24 on duty, then back here to go back on duty. We're short staffed and three of us are in P-school at once (two different places) so it's tough... and only getting tougher since we're all getting ready to start clinicals and ride time
 
When I took my ACP course, which was a distance Ed course, the hardest part was to make myself sit down and study. When I did my PCP course it was full time M-F 8hrs/day. It was easier to come home and study as I was in the study/learning frame of mind. The second hardest part is remembering it all.
For me the second part leads back to the first part. I'm constantly going back and rereading or looking stuff up, both old and new. Its a never ending process for me. But if I want to be a good, proficient provider this is what I have to do, so I do. Even if some days I feel like a hamster on a wheel.

Part time or distance courses are generally very difficult to do for most people. You have to be driven or force yourself to be driven to finish them and do well. Given a choice I would take a full time course over a distance one any time.

For me the most stressful parts were the final scenario exams and the oral boards. I was extremely anxious prior to them. The scenarios I floated right through. The oral boards I struggled with. I seemed to develop the worlds biggest brain fart. The final question we went through about 30 drugs and 3-4 procedures in 10-15 minutes and I nailed them. I was through. What a relief that was.

Do you do oral boards for EMT -P in the US?
 
Outbac1 said:
Do you do oral boards for EMT -P in the US?
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Yes. There are two oral board 'scenarios' in the practical testing portion of the NREMT-P test
 
As an instructor of EMS Education for over 30 years, the most difficult part of paramedic school for most students is that of time management. As EMS folks, we feel that we can manage anything that comes our way...however, most students begin to sink very quickly if they do not seriously sit down prior to class and make a plan. Some things are negotiable for sacrifice, others should not be. Deciding which is which is the challenge!

Bill
 
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