Emergency medical technician

Duties and responsibilities

  Emergency medical technicians, or EMTs, usually work on 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 casualties to hospital emergency rooms for further care. The job is both physically demanding and stressful. Emergency medical technicians often responsible for:

·        Automobile accidents

·        Heart attacks

·        Gunshot wounds

·        Unscheduled child birth

·        Drowning’s

·        Other serious medical emergencies

Average salary: $25,000-$37,000

Educational requirements

  Students must have high school diploma in some areas GED certificates may be substituted

In order to become an emergency medical technicians. Driver’s education, health, and science courses are strongly recommend ended and may be required before enrolling in some training programs.

Basic emergency medical technicians training includes about 100-120 hours spent in the classroom and about 10 hours in a hospital’s emergency room. Emergency medical technicians are required to pass state licensing or certification tests and participating in continuing education program. Many emergency medical technicians earn associate degrees in their fields.

I personally would not want to have this job because it seems too demanding and too much human interaction. This isn’t really what I like or what imp about.