Originally Posted by
Texas42
I would not consider EMT to be a good stepping stone to RN, PA, MD, DO, nurse pratitioner or whatever conglomeration of letters of medical professionals. Heck, PA school is more competative in many ways then medical school. A couple people in my class were EMT's, but that isn't very common.
Care to elaborate on this at all? I don't know if "prior medical experience" applies to med students but it sure does for anyone trying to get into an RN program and obviously is a pre-req for a medic too.
An EMT-B is one of the most basic (hence the B) Medical certifications you can obtain in a single semester. It was my intro into the ER which not surprisingly is where I want to work as an RN so I'd have to disagree on it not being a good stepping stone.
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