Emergency Medical Technician

Emergency Medical Technician

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Duties and Responsibilities:

Emergency medical technician, or EMTs, usually works in teams of two in specially designed ambulances. They provide immediate life or limb saving medical treatment at the scenes of accidents and injuries as well as transport causalities to hospitals emergency rooms for further care. The job is both physical demanding and stressful. Emergency, medical technician often respond to:

·       Automobile accidents

·       Heart attack

·       Gunshot wounding

·       Unscheduled childbirth

·       Drowning

·       Other series medical emergencies

Average Salary: $25,000-$37,500

Educational Requirement:

Students must have a high school diploma (in some areas GED certificate may be substituted) in order to become a emergency medical technician.  Driver`s education, health, and science courses are strongly recommended and may be required before enrolling in some training programs.

Basic emergency medical technician training includes about 100-120 hours spent in the classroom and 10 hours in the hospital’s emergency room. Emergency medical technicians are required to pass the state licensed or certification test and participate in continuing education programs. Many emergency medical technicians earn associate degrees in their field.

CHOOSE THE RIGHT!!!!

I wouldnt want to be  medical technician becuase, it is not my thing. I would want to go jump in a car that, make these life nosises.(am not a person that would be risking amy life, lifetaker) am just not into it. Than agian everbody has their own opinions.