Accepted as a pre-med student; what now?

DigitalDad
Tue, 07 Mar 2023 02:09:59 +0000

parentologist:

Maybe EMS, but what you’ll wind up doing is medical transport - hard on the back, and no real clinical involvement, although you do have contact with patients.

However, the bigger part is patient assessment, scene/family/bystander management, establishing medical history, independently deciding course of action under pressure, asserting authority, HIPPA compliance, charting/state-mandated reporting/record-keeping, effective emergency-room hand-off (and occasionally have to ascertain that the registrar snaps out of their routine and “gets” the gravity), decontamination/bio-waste handling – all experiences that are highly relevant/telling, and about as hands-on as one can get before actually having attended medical school?

PS: Modern ambulances have lifts and LUCAS devices, and in many towns, police on the scene, or the fire department hulks can be called in (again / now that CoVid is managed) for lift-assists as needed.