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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]CNA, MA and EMT courses can be from 4-12 weeks and cost > $1000. Just looked and phlebotomy is $2300 at MCCC

In the DMV, the classes fill up fast.

You might be able to do that over the summer, and is fine for a gap year, but it is quite a investment.

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Many premeds were in summer community college EMT class. The college fees, NREMT fees, background check, drug test, books, cost about $2000[/quote]

I’ve been helping my kid look and it is really hard to find one.  The only one available near her school requires [b]many many weekends which she can’t do because of her sport.  [/b]We found an expedited program in Arizona where you work llle 10 hour days for a few weeks and get verified but of course that’s expensive and you need to pay lodging in Arizona and flights there (plus Arizona in the summer so that’s fun).  I feel like all this is easy in theory but it adds up.  Even [b]the idea of spending her short winter break shadowing doctors after being in classes is a lot. [/b] Even premed kids deserve a break!  [/quote]
Is she in high school? Maybe time to quite the sport, or commit to the gap year. That is common for athletes. 
Shadowing is 40-100 hours total.  She can spend one full time week shadowing doc this winter break and one next year or do 2 weeks and be done. Shadowing is not the hard part nor is it a plus to do extra. Winter break in college is usually 4 weeks. She can work one week if she really wants this. Most we know start MCAT studying over winter break junior year so they can take it in April and have fewer practice test/review hours during the semester. Heck my non-premed spent half of winter break doing research and running her club exec board on zoom. If the premed slog tires these kids they will never survive med school or residency. Maybe that is the point of all the reqs, to weed out for mental and physical stamina rather than have the med student who cannot stand for 5+ hours during ICU rounds or surgery with no break during an 80- hr work week. [/quote]

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