the 100% directionless thread

[terrible one]

Are you able to go PT? After all it's less than a year.

I've just known several people that have gone to NCTI and I've never heard anything good from it.

 

[exodus]

Id rather not go PT since hours are not guaranteed. Id end up trying to find someone to do a permanent trade with.

 

[GMCmedic]

Well then I'll just put this out there- I've had paramedic students from almost every paramedic program in SoCal, it has nothing to do with the school, and everything to do with the student.

Lots of truth here. I got my medic through IHM. A year long program and two days a month of class time, the majority is self taught.

I turned out ok...........but its certainly not for everyone.

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[terrible one]

Well then I'll just put this out there- I've had paramedic students from almost every paramedic program in SoCal, it has nothing to do with the school, and everything to do with the student.

Sure.... but if one costs 15k or more (not sure what NCTI is up to now) and the other is 5k or less and gets you college credits.....

Not to mention I've heard of NCTI students waiting 6 months or more for an internship.

Anyway OP, good luck with whichever you end up at.

 

[terrible one]

I also would argue that the school does have something to do with the quality of student they put out. Maybe not as much as the internal drive of the student. In either case that's a topic for another thread.

 

[EpiEMS]

and the other is 5k or less and gets you college credits.....

I thought that all accredited medic programs provide college credits (or at least arrange for the provision thereof through some sort of articulation agreement)...?

 

[VentMonkey]

I also would argue that the school does have something to do with the quality of student they put out. Maybe not as much as the internal drive of the student. In either case that's a topic for another thread.

Most definitely this^^^, but I stand by my remark. I have no clue what they're charging these days, and the internship fiasco is everywhere, even here.

Could it be the quality most programs, wait for it... and therefore the entire education (or lack there of) of the DOT curriculum coupled with a current shift in workforce generations plays a factor?

In other words, there are possibly no preceptors because no one wants to do it, or gets burned by the "quality" of students being produced regardless of the program in question.

Also, when I went through NCTI there were knobs in it just like anywhere. Our then primary instructor was also the primary at Crafton. She allowed to us voluntarily sit in on their mega-code finals so that we would know what to expect, and/ or anticipate when ours came around.

Something unique to NCTI that it was doing then (again, no clue where it is now) was incorporating all certs with their modules (i.e., PALS/ pediatrics, ACLS/ cardiology, ITLS/ trauma, etc.).

I do agree it's sad how dollar-driven especially private schools such as NCTI are. The whole "my school is better than your school" implies nothing to me. It's all the same watered down material until proven otherwise in the caliber of squared-away and driven professionals on the whole in one particular program.

Mt. Sac used to pride themselves on such, but then people pissed and moaned they were "too hard" on their people.

 

[StCEMT]

Having to learn this resume building thing now that I am leaving the place I very first started. Pretty sure I have no idea what I am doing, thankfully Google is a thing.

 

[Jim37F]

Indulging my inner kid by catching a matinee of the Power Rangers movie haha xD

 

[EpiEMS]

Having to learn this resume building thing now that I am leaving the place I very first started. Pretty sure I have no idea what I am doing, thankfully Google is a thing.

Happy to take a peek if you like.

 

[terrible one]

@VentMonkey

I can agree with pretty much all that.

 

[Fido198674]

Happy to take a peek if you like.

Last time someone told me that naughty things happened jk

Woo hoo, passed my PAT again..... Gotta remember to grab the bottom handles on the gurney though don't know why I go for those top handles all the time

 

[NomadicMedic]

Just showed a couple of the medics at work the Kiwi Grip. I was almost like, "how do you not know how to do this?" But I forgot that not everybody reads and stays up to date with this stuff.

 

[Carlos Danger]

Just showed a couple of the medics at work the Kiwi Grip. I was almost like, "how do you not know how to do this?" But I forgot that not everybody reads and stays up to date with this stuff.

you have a video, or a pic?

 

[VFlutter]

Just showed a couple of the medics at work the Kiwi Grip. I was almost like, "how do you not know how to do this?" But I forgot that not everybody reads and stays up to date with this stuff.

Blasphemy! A bougie should be straight!! Not all twisted up on it self like some cherry stem.

you have a video, or a pic?

 

[NomadicMedic]

It really improves the dexterity of the distal end.

It's a policy here to preload a tube on a bougie, and I've been tubing people that way for a while. Works for me.

 

[Nick15]

Seeing a lot of the valley on tv right now with the third different pursuit that the news is covering.


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[Jim37F]

Seeing a lot of the valley on tv right now with the third different pursuit that the news is covering.


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I think they're saying now it's a continuation of the second one, guy "just" hijacked another vehicle

 

[Nick15]

I think they're saying now it's a continuation of the second one, guy "just" hijacked another vehicle

I saw that. The news had to cut away since their copter had to fuel up. Oh well time for bed now haha.


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[DesertMedic66]

I saw that. The news had to cut away since their copter had to fuel up. Oh well time for bed now haha.


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ktla on channel 5 is still covering it.

Edit: and well it's over now