EMT certification for premed?

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I recently found out about an EMT-B course being offered at my undergraduate institution. The problem is that I am already a junior. If I plan on applying to medical school "on time", I will not have much time to do anything with the certification. Moreover, many EMT-B jobs, even volunteer positions, can be hard to find.

Do you think it's worth it to get certified as an EMT-B at this point? Come application time, I would only have a summer's worth of EMT experience, if that. My stats are decent (3.93 / 34), but I feel that despite having volunteered and shadowed, I haven't had much real clinical experience. My volunteer positions have more scut work than patient contact and I don't feel that shadowing gives me a clear idea of what patient contact is like because it's such a passive experience.

 

[music2doc]

I recently found out about an EMT-B course being offered at my undergraduate institution. The problem is that I am already a junior. If I plan on applying to medical school "on time", I will not have much time to do anything with the certification. Moreover, many EMT-B jobs, even volunteer positions, can be hard to find.

Do you think it's worth it to get certified as an EMT-B at this point? Come application time, I would only have a summer's worth of EMT experience, if that. My stats are decent (3.93 / 34), but I feel that despite having volunteered and shadowed, I haven't had much real clinical experience. My volunteer positions have more scut work than patient contact and I don't feel that shadowing gives me a clear idea of what patient contact is like because it's such a passive experience.

Not worth it if you don't use it. Actually, I've heard of interviewers actually grilling applicants who have an EMT-B license w/o actual experience using it, so it could actually backfire...

 

[NeuralNetwork]

I recently found out about an EMT-B course being offered at my undergraduate institution. The problem is that I am already a junior. If I plan on applying to medical school "on time", I will not have much time to do anything with the certification. Moreover, many EMT-B jobs, even volunteer positions, can be hard to find.

Do you think it's worth it to get certified as an EMT-B at this point? Come application time, I would only have a summer's worth of EMT experience, if that. My stats are decent (3.93 / 34), but I feel that despite having volunteered and shadowed, I haven't had much real clinical experience. My volunteer positions have more scut work than patient contact and I don't feel that shadowing gives me a clear idea of what patient contact is like because it's such a passive experience.

Don't forget the average time it takes to actually find a job

 

[Valadi]

Just do it. Try and join a fire squad while you're still in the class and ask if you can just ride around. If you got your EMT-B years before application, sure they may ask why you didn't use it. But seriously if you get the cert in spring before you apply no one is going to go after you for not having a job yet. You simply say you didn't have the opportunity to earlier in college and now that you have it your in contact with local depts and hope to do so during your senior year and the summer before med school. The end.

There's no ****ing way doing more hurts you, unless it comes off that you're just 'faking' the motions.