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- Primary Role in EMS
- Paramedic/EMT-I/EMT-D
- Primary Agency/Department Type
- Municipal Agency
- Primary Department/Agency Name
- EMSA OKC
- Department/Agency Web Site
- http://www.emsaonline.com/
- Years in EMS/Public Safety
- 2
- My Training:
- Nationally Registered Paramedic
- About Me
- B.A. Politics and Government from University of Puget Sound (1999 - 2003)
- Day Job
- Paramedic
- I Love Being in Fire/EMS Because
- It's challenging, humbling, you get to help people and you will NEVER know it all.
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- Married
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Whic prerequisites are waved? There's a difference between not having to take Intro to Computers and Applications and not taking the Anatomy and Physiology sequence.
Do you feel that the lack of prerequisite courses to be a contributor to the high…
We do, and the results are mixed. We hire candiates and send them to the paramedic program to a community college where I teach part time. They do not have to have BLS experience first. They attend the core paramedic classes with students who go on…
Depends on what brand of "better" you're looking for. Sending people to school seems to make them more ingrained into your system, but I think each medic owning his/her own education invests people in the profession a bit more (which, of course, is…
Just the web component. Lost a lot of stuff I typed that way. :) Having a real program with later uploading would probably have helped.
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