Emergency Medical
Technician
Duties and
Responsibilities:
Emergency
medical technicians, or EMTS, usually work 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 casualties to hospital
emergency rooms for further care. The job is both physically demanding and
stressful. Emergency medical technicians often respond to:
· Automobile accidents
· Heart attacks
· Gunshot wounding
· Unscheduled childbirth
· Drowning
· Other serious medical emergencies
Average
Salary:
Educational
Requirements:
Students
must have a high school diploma (in some areas GED certificates may be
substituted) in order to become an emergency medical technician. Driver’s
education, health, and science courses are strongly recommended and may be
require before enrolling in some training programs.
Basic
emergency medical technician training includes about 100-120 hours spent in the
classroom and 10 hours in a hospital emergency room. Emergency medical
technicians are required to pass state licensing or certification tests and
participate in continuing education programs. Many emergency medical
technicians earn associate degrees in their field.
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