donricardo
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Hello everyone, I am currently in my last semester of university taking prerequisites to apply for PA school. Before this, I am considering an EMT-B certification to be more competitive and gain some knowledge and experience of the heath care field. Also, many PA schools require a minimum of 1000 hours of direct patient care experience as a pre requisite to the program. I thought that becoming an EMT-B would be a fun and exciting way to fulfill this requirement, but from what I have read on this site EMT-B jobs can be pretty hard to come by. Some have reported searching from six months to three years before landing a job.
I found an EMT-B program at Barry University in Miami that I would like to complete and then hopefully land a job somewhere in South Florida afterwards. I currently live in Tennessee, however, and the thought of relocating to a more expensive state and not having a job for up to six months after gaining my certification is disheartening. Can any of you offer any advice or comment on the availability of EMT-B jobs in South Florida or perhaps suggest an alternative path? My ultimate goal is to become a PA, so the EMT job would be just to gain direct patient care and if I got a job, I would only be working as an EMT for one to two years. Are jobs for CNA’s, Medical Assistants, or Phlebotomists’ more plentiful?
To offer a little more background on my reasoning for relocation to South Florida is that I want to keep up with my Spanish language skills, as I believe it is becoming more and more important in the healthcare field. Before deciding to become an PA, I was a teacher and I lived and taught in Peru and Mexico for several years where I was able to pick up quite a high degree of fluency in Spanish. But as you can imagine, there are not many opportunities to practice here in rural Tennessee. Thanks in advance - donricardo
I found an EMT-B program at Barry University in Miami that I would like to complete and then hopefully land a job somewhere in South Florida afterwards. I currently live in Tennessee, however, and the thought of relocating to a more expensive state and not having a job for up to six months after gaining my certification is disheartening. Can any of you offer any advice or comment on the availability of EMT-B jobs in South Florida or perhaps suggest an alternative path? My ultimate goal is to become a PA, so the EMT job would be just to gain direct patient care and if I got a job, I would only be working as an EMT for one to two years. Are jobs for CNA’s, Medical Assistants, or Phlebotomists’ more plentiful?
To offer a little more background on my reasoning for relocation to South Florida is that I want to keep up with my Spanish language skills, as I believe it is becoming more and more important in the healthcare field. Before deciding to become an PA, I was a teacher and I lived and taught in Peru and Mexico for several years where I was able to pick up quite a high degree of fluency in Spanish. But as you can imagine, there are not many opportunities to practice here in rural Tennessee. Thanks in advance - donricardo