To answer the first question, I got my I through a County EMS Training Center in MD. I've considered enrolling in a B-P class, however my B-I class was a 9 month class with almost 980 hours of class w/ 200 clinical hours and was supposed to be followed up by a short 3 month I-P bridge that filled in the gaps...but it never happened because out of my 20 person B-I class only 9 people made it through to the last day, with myself and another person from my agency leaving the class with a grade average of 96% and the rest of the class barely passing with an average of 77%.
Anyway, I'd like to thank everyone for their help, I really appreciate the effort you all put into helping me especially since I'm relatively new to the forum. I do have one quick question though...as far as the Montgomery County program is concerned, do you have to be a member for a county EMS agency or would being a member of another MD county agency suffice?