EMT-Basic Program

emty

emty

Forum Ride Along
Messages
9
Reaction score
0
Points
1
I am attending an EMT-Basic program right now, it lasts about 6 months. I have a question, considering that each course I am taking literally only lasts 6 weeks, and the first book I have is about 6 inches thick with 40 chapters, am I supposed to retain ALL of this? Or am I going to learn it when I get in the field with experience, does anyone come out of these kind of programs retaining all of this information, it is quite a hefty work load and I would just like some advise for those of you have found yourselves in similar situations.
 
You'll be lucky if you retain 1%. Good courses like that help create a good foundation, though.
 
emty said:
I am attending an EMT-Basic program right now, it lasts about 6 months. I have a question, considering that each course I am taking literally only lasts 6 weeks, and the first book I have is about 6 inches thick with 40 chapters, am I supposed to retain ALL of this? Or am I going to learn it when I get in the field with experience, does anyone come out of these kind of programs retaining all of this information, it is quite a hefty work load and I would just like some advise for those of you have found yourselves in similar situations.
Click to expand...

Medic school is worse.
 
Robb said:
Medic school is worse.
Click to expand...

This x1,000. I have 26 different books and the classroom portion is around 6 months long.
 
Alright in all seriousness, yes, you're expected to retain all the information. Every final I've taken was comprehensive, hell my medic school final was like 900 some odd questions long and took me like 5 hours to do.

The NREMT exam is comprehensive as well. For EMT-B you should only have one main buck with a few supplements. I believe for both B and I I had a book and a workbook for both.

There is definitely on-the-job training involved but during an FTO period their job is to teach you operations of that system, not how to be an EMT. That's what class is for. Unfortunately EMS has been very resistant to increased education requirements.
 
Last edited by a moderator:
Robb said:
Alright in all seriousness, yes, you're expected to retain all the information. Every final I've taken was comprehensive, hell my medic school final was like 900 some odd questions long and took me like 5 hours to do.

The NREMT exam is comprehensive as well. For EMT-B you should only have one main buck with a few supplements. I believe for both B and I I had a book and a workbook for both.

There is definitely on-the-job training involved but during an FTO period their job is to teach you operations of that system, not how to be an EMT. That's what class is for. Unfortunately EMS has been very resistant to increased education requirements.
Click to expand...

What kind of study material were you using?!
 
Robb said:
Alright in all seriousness, yes, you're expected to retain all the information. Every final I've taken was comprehensive, hell my medic school final was like 900 some odd questions long and took me like 5 hours to do.

The NREMT exam is comprehensive as well. For EMT-B you should only have one main buck with a few supplements. I believe for both B and I I had a book and a workbook for both.

There is definitely on-the-job training involved but during an FTO period their job is to teach you operations of that system, not how to be an EMT. That's what class is for. Unfortunately EMS has been very resistant to increased education requirements.
Click to expand...

Thank you for the serious answer.
 
DesertEMT66 said:
What kind of study material were you using?!
Click to expand...


I have a book case an a half full of my texts. I have around 25 or so required texts in medic school and close to 10-15 optional. We had separate pharm, patho phys , physical assessment, 12 lead, cardiac/ ekg, Etc. This was all in top of the 5 book paramedic text set.
 
Medic Tim said:
I have a book case an a half full of my texts. I have around 25 or so required texts in medic school and close to 10-15 optional. We had separate pharm, patho phys , physical assessment, 12 lead, cardiac/ ekg, Etc. This was all in top of the 5 book paramedic text set.
Click to expand...

That's about how ours was. We weighed all our books one day, I can't remember the exact number but it was ridiculous.
 
Medic Tim said:
I have a book case an a half full of my texts. I have around 25 or so required texts in medic school and close to 10-15 optional. We had separate pharm, patho phys , physical assessment, 12 lead, cardiac/ ekg, Etc. This was all in top of the 5 book paramedic text set.
Click to expand...

Robb said:
That's about how ours was. We weighed all our books one day, I can't remember the exact number but it was ridiculous.
Click to expand...

Thats how our textbooks are as well. I was just being an :censored::censored::censored::censored::censored::censored::censored: since robb said "one main buck" :P
 
I'm confused?
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top