phinzup911

Brent, first off you need to make you're own choices, but I reccomend getting a couple of years of experience as an EMT-B first. You CAN benefit from experience as an EMT, and in my time in EMS, 17 1/2 years, the best medics are the ones who have prior experience as an EMT before going to medic school. emt019 said it right. No amount of "book learning" will prepare you for what you'll see in the streets. I have seen medics who jumped straight from EMT to medic school and they have NO BLS skills what-so-ever. One thing I have heard more times than I can count is BLS before ALS. Get your EMT skills honed first!!