RescuePro33

Im sorry for my Grammar and im sorry i offended anybody with what i said, i should have gave my topic a little more thought before i posted it. The school im going to is a 18 month medical/business school program that makes everyone take the same course work as everyone one else in the program. The first Semester consist of EMT 1 and 2 and a Gen Ed class, so it doesn't matter if your a EMT or not they still make you take the EMT basic classes. So like i said before there are 2 active EMTs in my class of 11 and me and him are bored out of our minds with this class, thats why we wanted to be partners from the start so we can branch off and start to work on the class work for our up coming Paramedic 1 classes in December but instead we are stuck Babysitting people that have no experience what so ever, now don't get me wrong i will help anyone to a extent but when the newbies expect us 2 guys to carry them through class thats when it started to get old real quick. Now on to the girl i told yall about, I didn't mean to come off like the way i did, its just a lot of drama went down the day i started this post and i was very annoyed with the situation. The number one reason I don't want to be put with the girl is she made the comment "If I fail im going to make sure you fail" and i thought that wouldn't be possible but then our instructor said that on hands on test, me and my partner will be graded as one person which i think is the most retarded thing ever. Theres one more fact i want to make known, medic school is expensive, nearly $15,000 dollars and i was stuck if no-mans land where i make to much for fin aid but my credits not good enough for a private loan so im paying for everything out of pocket semester by semester and this may sound conceited but right know my only concern is me. In closing i want to say one more thing, of the last 2 classes before mine the drop-out rate has been rather large and its not the school who's kicking these people out. its people leaving on there own because the course work is to difficult or the instructors our mean to them by quizzing them all the time so of the last class of 12 only 4 choose to stay enrolled in the medic classes and our instructors for see the same thing happening to our class, and thats another reason I wanted the partner I have now, we both ran together outside of streets with neighboring fire depts and we have been planing to go to medic school for quite awhile, so while we were waiting to get enough money to attended, we practiced our skills and had a few medics in our class tutor us with what we will need to know to excel in class, so I know that he is in it for the long haul and wont drop out on me and thats the type of people i want to associate myself with for the next 17 months, i hope this sheds some light on what i was trying to say earlier

The reason i am writing this is to ask the question if you ever had a partner in Medic school you just couldn't get along with? The program i am in now is brand new so they are in the process of debugging the program by trying new things and so on, and i have to say that i like the way everything is going now, except this whole partner thing, out of a class of 11 people there are 4 people who are already EMTs and 7 people who have no experience what so ever, now at this point our instructor decided that it would be a good idea for her to pick the partners for everyone in the class instead of letting us pick our own, which sucked from the door because i wanted to be partners with another EMT in my class that runs with a Fire Dept just like me so that way we are always on the same page and we know each others background, well as it turns out i got put with this girl who i knew for a fact was doomed from the door, i mean i was more than willing to help this girl out in any way, but then the drama started, she is one of these types of girls who whole life focuses on her and shes not happy unless she is gossiping or crying and complaining about something, well when i got assigned to her i was willing to take one on the chin for my instructor and work with her and the first week even the second week went fine then it was test time, Chapters 1-4 of the standard EMT Basic textbook which covered ethics and the well being of a EMT and so on, nothing really to do with the meat and potatoes of patient care, Well the Test was all open book except for the people who are already EMTs we took the test with are books closed, but anyways this girl failed her first test and couldn't score over a 80 on the other sections, and thats when i knew i had to jump ship and find a new partner, and when i made my decision known all of a sudden she started crying saying everyone hates her and blah blah blah , i mean does everyone think i did the right thing by getting myself away from her? or should i have stuck it out and see what happens? i think i did the right thing by moving on and know i also got the person who i wanted to be partner from day 1 so it has worked out for the better so far. Do you have any horror stories about who your partner was in EMT class or Medic class if so you should post them and we can compare stories

Thanks for all the um info in this post i to am a emt in the boonies and i have got alot of great tips for putting together my own ems jump bag

where i live the emts only get a set of bunker gear, same as firefighters, and we get a a set of coveralls

Hey thanks for the info, i got hired as a ER tech while im in medic school

I am a Full Time Medic Student plus i also have a full time job as a server so that way i can have money everyday, im not going to lie my plate is full but i hope in the big picture of things it will all be worth it