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Probably a minor typographic error, but that should read www.nremt.org. I would also google each US State's Department of Health, and ask about the international reciprocity. Good luck, and welcome to the city!

I've been in EMS since 2004. I know that I have not seen it all by any stretch of the imagination. However, I have seen enough that when I make scene I don't get grossed out, at least not in a while. With that being said, I attended 15 hours of classes at a conference a few weeks back. There were several classes that had quite a few pictures; one was on sports injuries and another was on pedi trauma. I watched a few people turn their heads so that they could hear the lecture but not have to witness the photos. That worked for them and accomplished the task. For me, I got the "ew" factor several times. In addition to the material presented, I walked away with the knowledge that I am still a "feeling" person. It confirmed that I am still grounded. How's that for a CE? I'm not sure I would fault any education that provides visual aids...as long as they preface the lecture with the disclaimer that it does include graphic material and that you can turn away or step out if needed.

I was thinking of substituting the name Kenny with Dwyane on some of these > LITTLE KENNY ON MATH (Part 1) > > A teacher asks her class, 'If there are 5 birds sitting on a fence, and you shoot one of them, how many will be left?' > She calls on little Kenny. > He replies, 'None, they will all fly away with the first gunshot.' > > The teacher replies, 'The correct answer is 4, but I like your thinking.' > > Then little Kenny says, 'I have a question for YOU Miss Rogers'. > > There are 3 women sitting on a bench having ice cream: > One is delicately licking the sides of the triple scoop of ice cream. > The second is gobbling down the top and sucking on the cone. > The third is biting off the top of the ice cream. > Which one is married?' > > The teacher, blushing a great deal, replied, 'Well, I suppose the one that's gobbled down the top and sucked the cone.' > > To which Little Kenny replies, 'The correct answer is 'The one with the wedding-ring on, 'but I like your thinking.' > > > > > LITTLE KENNY ON MATH (Part 2) > > > > > Little Kenny returns from school and says he got an 'F' in arithmetic. > > 'Why'? asks the father. > > 'The teacher asked 'How much is 2 x 3', so I said 6', replies Kenny. > > 'But that's right' says his father. > > 'Yeah, but then she asked me, 'How much is 3 x 2' > > 'What's the fuckin' difference?' asks the father. > > 'That's what I said' replied Kenny. > > > > > LITTLE KENNY ON ENGLISH > > > > > Little Kenny goes to school, and the teacher says, 'Today we are going to learn multi-syllable words in our class. Does anybody have an example of a multi-syllable word?' > > Kenny says 'Mas-tur-bate..' > > Miss Rogers smiles and says, 'Wow, Kenny, that's a real mouthful.' > > Little Kenny says, 'No, Miss Rogers, you're thinking of a blow-job..' > > > > > LITTLE KENNY ON GRAMMAR > > > > > Little Kenny was sitting in the class one day. > All of a sudden, he needed to go to the bathroom... > He yelled out, 'Miss Jones, I need to go take a piss!!' > > The teacher replied, 'Now Kenny, that is NOT the proper word to use in this situation. The correct word you want to is, 'I need to Urinate'. Please use the word 'ur-i-nate' in a sentence correctly, and I will allow you to go.' > > Little Kenny thinks for a bit, and then says, 'YOUR'E AN EIGHT, but if you had bigger tits, you'd be aTEN' > > > > > LITTLE KENNY ON GRAMMAR (Part 2) > > > > > One day, during lessons on proper grammar, the teacher asked for a show of hands from those who could use the word 'beautiful' in the same sentence twice. > > First, she called on little Suzie, who responded with, 'My father bought my mother a beautiful dress, and she looked beautiful in it.' > 'Very good, Suzie,' replied the teacher.. > > She then called on little Michael. > 'My mommy planned a beautiful banquet, and it turned out beautifully.' > > She said, 'Excellent, Michael, excellent.' > Then the teacher reluctantly called on little Kenny. > > 'Last night at the dinner table, my sister told my father that she was pregnant, and he said 'Beautiful, just fuckin' beautiful'. > > > > > LITTLE KENNY ON GETTING OLDER > > > > > Little Kenny was sitting on a park bench, munching on one candy bar after another. > > After the 6th bar, a man on the bench across from him said, > 'Son, you know eating all that candy isn't good for you. It will give you acne, rot your teeth, and make you fat.' > > Little Kenny replied, 'My grandfather lived to be 107 years old.' > > The man asked, 'Did your grandfather eat 6 candy bars at a time'? > > Little Kenny answered, 'No, he just minded his own fuckin' business..

Look here, my friend... we don't give out negative points because we don't like you, we do so when you appear to be a friggin' troll! I read through all of the threads you posted as you posted them, and you rambled all over the place and made a mess in here. I'm sorry, but you then lashing out and calling people paranoid (with a definition no less) just makes you look even dumber. You're an internet whacko, and were summarily labeled as such by those experienced in identifying them. Congrats, you got your money back. Sorry you got screwed by the strike because you happened to be going through school at the same time that the strike happened. Can you shut up now? Please? Even more telling is your need to come in here and flash around "oh lookee lookee I got my money back you all were wrong" when it really serves no purpose. Or, even better... can you start posting on the clinical threads and actually PARTICIPATING in this forum instead of being wrapped up in your own little world all the time? There's a whole wide world of medicine out here, and all you want to do is piss and moan about how your clinical situation sucked and how some of the big bad mean Canuckian members here decided they didn't like you... Thanks. Wendy CO EMT-B

I think one shouldn't go straight to assuming everything was done inappropriately until we're told so. this seems almost like hanging a fellow EMT out to dry when we read a news article on an incident without knowing details...

I had a very similar experience in basic class. It was the first night and they were trying to weed out people. I can say it worked because we started with 30 people and only 23 showed up the second night. Im not going to judge if this was good or bad but it hapened. I was very disturbed by the pictures. It gave me nightmares for a week. It also made me think that all calls were gore and guts. Ive now been in EMS five years and recieved my medic and I can tell you from experience that pictures disgust me. TV shows with operations make me ill. Some OR clinicals have made me gag. The good news is I have done and seen some absolutely gruesome stuff and have never been sick on a call. It doesnt even cross my mind that I have my hand in a mans brain trying to roll him over on the street where he leanded after ejection from his 1050. I can manipulate a childs obviously broken arm without reacting. I can deal with extreme violence and not be sick. However when I get back to the station I may have to sit and take a breather, My advice is dont let a slideshow deter you from the field. If youve seen some gore in the ER and it hasnt bothered you dont give up. JMO.

Lila, When you decided to get into EMS, just what did you really expect the job to entail? Why did you decide to get into EMS in the first place? Did you walk in with blinders on, or did you really look into the field and see what our world REALLY looks like? Forgive me if this seems too 'blunt'. This is not an attack on you in any form! I highly doubt that your school, instructor or the coroner (or anyone else involved in this presentation) set out to intentionally scar you emotionally with this presentation. Having been in the field for as long as I have, I can tell you that most of what we deal with in EMS is 'ugly'. When we're on scene, we don't have the luxury to call 'time out' and run out to the truck to regroup and get ourselves composed. Could it be that the coroner's only intention was to help desensitize you in the classroom so that you dont 'fall to pieces' on the street? There are going to be many times in your EMS career that people are going to depend on you to keep your shit together and be the 'rock' that they can cling to when their life is in total chaos. This isn't going to be possible if you're going to fall apart because the call involves kids, the elderly, the young, or whatever demographic tugs at your heart strings! Yes, the pictures were probably very brutal, haunting and extremely disturbing. But remember, on scene you CAN'T go running from the house weeping your eyes out. You HAVE to grit your teeth, roll up your sleeves and get in the middle of the shit storm and do what you were educated to do! We don't get to pick and choose what calls we are dispatched to. We don't get to only do the 'sunshine and belly rubs' calls that leave you with a warm fuzzy feeling inside. You're going to go to calls where some abusive jackass man has beaten the ever-loving shit out of his wife/girlfriend/fiancée....you'll go to calls where some alcoholic mother has beaten her kids within an inch of their lives, or worse. Depending on what type of environment you're in, you may even get the call for some innocent grandfather who just got 3 bullets in his chest from some strung out junkie who just shot him for a measly $12.00... You'll be dispatched to the MVA in the middle of the night that was caused by a drunk driver, who just killed a family of four coming home from Grandma's house...and they only get a few cuts and bruises. You might even get dispatched to the depressed person, who's decided that life isn’t worth living; and decides to deep throat a shotgun, and ends up splattering his brains all over the ceiling and walls. Yes, EMS can be a very UGLY world, but it's what we do. Again, this is not a personal attack Lila, it's the blunt, brutal reality of EMS...

British Columbia Paramedic student granted full refund because of 2009 labour strike. The 3,500 CUPE 873 members, who had been on strike since April 1, were seeking improved staffing levels, wage parity with other emergency response workers and a multi-year contract Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2009/04/10/bc-paramedics-talks.html#ixzz17dLMtrM9

"Its unknown why he included a link about the strike itself, to give some background on the strike I suppose. Oddly, the story he links to is almost a year old" If you were aware of your environment, you would know that the strike lasted 1.5 years, closing the Paramedic Academy indefinately. However, both you and Mobey were convinced I was a Lawyer investigating Paramedics. Very paranoid. However, isn't paranoia a psychotic disorder characterized by delusions of persecution with or without grandeur, often strenuously defended with apparent logic and reason. Extreme, irrational distrust of others

I find your inability to understand my posts truly disturbing. The labour strike is directly related to my posts. If you can't figure that out, nobody can help you. I was not attacking anyone. I wanted advice how to proceed, instead, I got several members obsessed that I was a Lawyer. Mobey was wrongfully linking a post from another site, addressing an unreported, sudden death of a worker. Once again, convinced that I was a Lawyer. He also thought I was another previous member returning under another name. Comparing my posts with his. Just paranoid, obsessive behaviour. Read the latest posts. They are attacking me. Some of the seniors here feel they can post anything. When they are wrong, they can't accept it. Anyone who challenges your incorrect assessment of facts gets a "poor reputation". Big Deal. If poor reputations were based on incomplete and wrong assessments, you would all be given poor reputations. Other members have here e-mailed me stating that most seniors here are sensitive about Lawyers investigating through this site. There was nothing presented that would have lead to this assessment. Mobey was instructing other members to be aware and not post. Paranoid behaviour. However, I accept your apology.

Just pointing out the wrong assessments made. Your previous reponses have been tainted with errors. Most likely a reflection of your Paramedic duties. Mobey was even contacting the Licencing Boards here. Quite obsessive and a little disturbing.