Emergency Medical Technician

Duties and Responsibilities:

Emergency medical technicians, or EMTs, usually work in the teams of two in specially designed ambulances. They provide immediate life or limb saving medical treatment at the scenes of accident and injuries as well as transport casualties to hospital emergency rooms for further care. The job is both physically demanding and stressful. Emergency medical technician often responds to:

ª      Automobile accidents

ª      Hart attacks

ª      Gunshot Wounding

ª      Unscheduled childbirth

ª      Drowning

ª      Other serious medical emergencies

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

  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 recommended 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 certificated test and participate in continuing education programs. Many emergency medical technicians earn associate degrees in their field.

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