Anonymous wrote:It doesn’t matter if you do EMT, CRN,pharmacy tech, research, shadowing or hospital volunteer hours etc, as long as there is some depth and some recognition. Everyone is trying to heat place themselves, ones I saw getting accepted to several medical schools, had done humanitarian medical missions to poverty ridden countries as they brought many stories to tell and engage interviewers and essay readers.

My niece just had 6 admits without any of that. Great grades and test scores and a lot of clinical hours. No research.

It doesn’t matter if you do EMT, CRN,pharmacy tech, research, shadowing or hospital volunteer hours etc, as long as there is some depth and some recognition. Everyone is trying to heat place themselves, ones I saw getting accepted to several medical schools, had done humanitarian medical missions to poverty ridden countries as they brought many stories to tell and engage interviewers and essay readers.

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, he is a civilian EMT in the U.S.

He isn’t a Special Forces medic/corpsman deployed to Afghanistan/Iraq circa 2008

Did I say he was SF, or deployed?

There seem to be know-nothings here that assume EMTs do interfacility transports all day. I’m guessing you’re one of them.

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Anonymous wrote:They are mostly picking up and dropping off

Do you live in Mayberry? Over four years here is what our EMT child dealt with as an EMT:

Stab wounds
GSWs
Amputations
Crush injuries
Full body burns
Suicide attempts and successes
Horrific MVAs
Child abuse
Elder abuse
Medevac
TBIs
So many overdoses

I guess it depends where you work.

That's why I came to the conclusion that these folks are talking about hospital based or private ambulances, not ones that get called out for emergencies. These are the stats for the calls received.

https://www.usfa.fema.gov/statistics/reports/firefighters-departments/fire-department-run-profile-v22i1.html

Yeah I thikn maybe you're right. DH is a volunteer firefighter/EMT. There definitely is time sitting around doing nothing, but he literally never transports patients from one medical facility to another - that's not his job. But even in our little suburban firehouse, every shift he has multiple calls that involve direct patient interaction where he and his partners are the first medical care on the scene. They deal with things ranging from an old lady fell and can't get up to the aforementioned puke/poop/vomit to NARCAN (which sounds like is quite the dumpster fire when the person comes-up) to administering CPR and saving lives. Definitely frequently exposed to lots of smells and lots of different lifestyles.

Moer than that - I can't imagine dumping on a teenager who wants to learn and contribute in a way that many of the adults on this thread are doing.

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Anonymous wrote:An EMT has 2-3 months of training, a paramedic has 1-2 yrs, not the same training or scope, and this thread is about EMTs.

Our nephew did his “2-3 months” of EMT training several years ago. Since then he’s interacted with thousands of patients and seen every type of call. He’s now certified for technical rescue, and TEMS/TCCC and became a TEMS instructor. Unlike 99% of EMTs, Paramedics, Resident, etc., he enters hot zones in the SWAT stack to provide medical care under potential fire. He’s fully integrated with SWAT on call outs and carries the same weapons they do to augment structure breaching and room clearing. You’d say he’s just an EMT.

Yeah, he is a civilian EMT in the U.S.

He isn’t a Special Forces medic/corpsman deployed to Afghanistan/Iraq circa 2008

Anonymous wrote:An EMT has 2-3 months of training, a paramedic has 1-2 yrs, not the same training or scope, and this thread is about EMTs.

Our nephew did his “2-3 months” of EMT training several years ago. Since then he’s interacted with thousands of patients and seen every type of call. He’s now certified for technical rescue, and TEMS/TCCC and became a TEMS instructor. Unlike 99% of EMTs, Paramedics, Resident, etc., he enters hot zones in the SWAT stack to provide medical care under potential fire. He’s fully integrated with SWAT on call outs and carries the same weapons they do to augment structure breaching and room clearing. You’d say he’s just an EMT.

I think there is one parent who is starting all these med school threads- about research, about grades, about clinical experience. I kind of feel bad for her kid- she seems intense, especially if the child is just in college!

Anonymous wrote:But it’s cute that she thinks she is better trained than physicians.

She has more experience than some residents apparently. You seem to know paper paramedics, not ones that see a lot of action.

Still think the troll on here has a child who did another form of clinical work and then…maybe is trying to get into med school this cycle, or didn’t get in and is now in some DO school and hence the chip on their shoulder.

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Anonymous wrote:Our nurse/paramedic daughter gets frustrated with residents who struggle to intubate patients in a perfectly lit, sterile, temperature controlled environment.

An EMT has 2-3 months of training, a paramedic has 1-2 yrs, not the same training or scope, and this thread is about EMTs. But it’s cute that she thinks she is better trained than physicians. If I had a dollar for every time I’ve received patients from the ambulance with their esophagus intubated, I could retire now. It’s rare to receive patients that even have working IVs placed before arrival.

You sound amazing. Like a real hero. Maybe you should volunteer to train the local squads and pass along your immense knowledge.

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Anonymous wrote:Our nurse/paramedic daughter gets frustrated with residents who struggle to intubate patients in a perfectly lit, sterile, temperature controlled environment.

An EMT has 2-3 months of training, a paramedic has 1-2 yrs, not the same training or scope, and this thread is about EMTs. But it’s cute that she thinks she is better trained than physicians. If I had a dollar for every time I’ve received patients from the ambulance with their esophagus intubated, I could retire now. It’s rare to receive patients that even have working IVs placed before arrival.

There are different levels of training for EMTs where I live. EMT-B has 4 months of training. EMT-Intermediate (EMT-I) has more training which involves starting IVs and administering more meds, and then there is paramedic (EMT-P) with still more training to run ALS operations.

Anonymous wrote:Our nurse/paramedic daughter gets frustrated with residents who struggle to intubate patients in a perfectly lit, sterile, temperature controlled environment.

An EMT has 2-3 months of training, a paramedic has 1-2 yrs, not the same training or scope, and this thread is about EMTs. But it’s cute that she thinks she is better trained than physicians. If I had a dollar for every time I’ve received patients from the ambulance with their esophagus intubated, I could retire now. It’s rare to receive patients that even have working IVs placed before arrival.