Helping you plan for success in your EMS career.
There are countless reasons to attend a professional conference, no matter what line of work you’re in. However, with the rapidly shifting landscape of health care in America and the ways in which medical services are administered, attending an EMS conference in your area can go an especially long way in making you a better [...] Read More
You’ve completed your EMT training course, studied hard and passed your certification exam, and earned your license to practice in your state. Now it’s time to hit the pavement and find a job. While many training programs can assist you in finding job placements in your area, landing a job means that you need to [...] Read More
Over the last few months, we’ve received dozens of emails from readers who are specifically interested in finding out our opinion on whether nor not they will be able to physically make it in EMS. They’re concerned that they’re too small, too big, too out of shape, or have had too many injuries. Let’s face [...] Read More
There are many reasons that EMS professionals may choose to leave the field of pre-hospital care. We covered these reasons extensively in the article “How Long Will Your EMS Career Last”, however, the motivations to seek a professional path beyond EMS can include physical fatigue, long and irregular shift hours, and limited advancement possibilities. However, [...] Read More
After we shared the news on Twitter and Facebook on July 22nd that Minnesota would become the first state in the nation to offer certification to community paramedics (you can view the original source article for those updates here), we received several emails from interested individuals who wanted to know more about the vital role [...] Read More
Tactical law enforcement teams, such as SWAT and SRT teams, regularly operate at the absolute edge of the safety envelope while carrying out their operations. These assignments might include hostage situations, mass casualty incidences (MCI), high-risk warrant service, or protection for domestic and international dignitaries. These high-risk, tactical assignments result in a much higher incidence [...] Read More
Many medics don’t realize that their career can provide them with the opportunity to travel the world or live in a new country either temporarily or permanently by serving in overseas paramedic jobs. However, if you are planning to become certified as an EMT-P, or currently hold your paramedic certification, and have a desire to [...] Read More
So you’ve gone through training, received your certifications, and now it’s time to pound the pavement and look for a job. The good news for you (and perhaps not so good news for others) is that EMS jobs in many areas undergo an above average employee turnover and if you can make yourself stand out [...] Read More
Many truly motivated EMS professionals aspire to move to the highest levels of the field, and begin dreaming of careers as flights medics. However, it’s an incredibly demanding profession with very limited employment opportunities and once you begin researching how to become a certified flight paramedic, it may seem like an insurmountable task. In this [...] Read More
An interesting number jumped out at me upon a recent review of the 2011 Salary and Workplace Survey from the Journal of Emergency Medical Services. We all know that EMS jobs tend to be physically demanding and can also induce severe fatigue due to long and irregular shift hours. However, after reading the statistics that [...] Read More
