Recent content by newmedic33

I have never heard of EMS jobs being 2 weeks on 2 off, sounds more like oilfield schedule to me, maybe you could find an ems job in oilfield? I don't think your gonna find that schedule, most I've heard work either 12's or modified Kelly schedules or 48 on 48 off or 48/96, never 2 weeks/2 weeks...

ya I called and he said as long as its accredited it would work. Problem is I absolutely can't afford to attend traditional college with a lab and stuff, that's a whole semester or 5 months. I can have up to 1 year of leave at my work to attend higher education, medic schools gonna take around 9...

anyone know of an accredited online Anatomy and Physiology courses for relatively cheap? Decided to go the traditional route for medic school and need A&P for a prereq before june, had a buddy who is going through the medic program at UCLA and they accepted the Corexcel course for a prereq just...

Not sure on the driving record check as long as police weren't involved but you can definitely count on your insurance rates going up significantly if it was reported to them, had a small fender bender like yours a couple years back and my insurance went from 80 a month to $107.

Im currently doing percom's program and getting close to finishing the intermediate portion (I've already taken an accelerated intermediate program through my department) but its good info just have to read it over and over and really beat it in, great information and the instructors are good...

gonna be trying this as well as fisdap, knightlife, lots of youtube, and chat sessions. Gonna stick with percom and do my best, Im also going to start reading at least an hour or two every night in my paramedic books, just have to go over and over and over it all again until it sticks, Can't see...

Ya hopefully I can pay for the majority with financial aid but it also seems most community colleges are going to 3-4 semesters just for a certificate, seems a bit long to me id rather do 6 months to a year mon-fri or 3 days a week, but I cancelled and took a loss on the online its not working...

ya maybe i'll look into that just gotta study harder I guess thanks for the pep talk just hard reading those really long chapters haha

that's what I'm planning on doing, taking A&P through my local community college and transfer the credits, I know Swedish is paired with Arapahoe do they take financial aid though? Haven't been able to reach anyone lately probably to due to the new class starting. Hopefully if I apply though I...

this is the program I'm doing currently, not working out too well.

I guess let me make this simpler... online and continue to work, or traditional paramedic school and take off and take loans to live and relocate?

Hows it goin everyone I've been set on going to paramedic school for about a year now. Little background on myself, I work at a small fire dept and have also been an emt b for about 7 months now, I love it and definitely wanna pursue paramedic. I don't make much ( about 0.50 cents more than...

I'm doing an online accredited program (percom) you gotta work harder to get the info to stick but it's definitely doable and I work full time for a fire dept and as an emt basic 24 hour shifts but we have a modified Kelly schedule so I have a lot of days off, gets a bit hectic with overtime and...

How's it goin everyone, had some concerns, Im currently taking an Advanced EMT course and were nearing the end, Haven't started clinicals yet though. Seems like the book work and everything else isn't a problem I'm doing really well at it, I've scored above 90's on everything but it seems I'm...

FireWA is doing Lenoir community colleges paramedic program, and I think percom's been super busy they were really great with communication last week with me and I've had trouble getting a hold of anyone now, filled all the forms out I need for the clinical site considerations and they keep...