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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The EMT crowd can be interesting...some kids can be sucked into some bad habits. [/quote]

This. I had a highschool friend that got sucked into the EMT crowd and things didn’t pan out the way their parents (and friend) thought it would.  [/quote]

Fiction…..people are getting frustrated and making shit up.[/quote]

I don’t know about the “EMT crowd” thing, buts it’s absolutely true that EMTs don’t do a whole lot and are mostly transporting non emergent patients who don’t require anything at all medically from them (or sitting around). You are better off working just about any other patient care role in a hospital if your goal is patient exposure, medical care, and learning if the medical field is for you.  [/quote]

I agree with what EMTs do, it was the EMT Crowd comment. What I am a bit confused about though is why do pre health advisors push EMT as better than pretty much every other clinical experience opportunity? My kids pre-Med advisor (Harvard med, Harvard application panel) flat out said "EMT first".

My oldest did EMT when she was in college for premed. She landed exceptionally well but was also a 4 year starting college athlete at a very competitive program with high grades and scores so she was in a good spot at the start of the application process, So, was EMT useful or not?

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Could it be that the situations EMTs deal with are raw/unsanitized, and can be high stress? Very different from shadowing a clinician, being a scribe, etc. which are more white collar while EMT is more blue collar?[/quote]

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