EMT or Scribe?

[4everdreamingofmedschool]

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I am trying to decide between the 2. If I do EMT, it works out perfectly because I know the owners of a privately owned service in an under served county nearby where I go to college. I will get a job with them after getting my EMT-B. It is a 911 service, transports are mostly only for critical patients going to larger hospitals that are an hour away. OR should I go after medical scribe? I want to do EMT more but since its a $2000 class and takes up 1/2 of my summer I'm iffy about it. I also want what will look better for me when applying to med schools. Thanks for any help.

 

[medic86]

Scribe.

 

[oobie]

Do what you think you will like more. Neither will look better than the other because both show you're getting clinical experience. I would say apply to start applying to scribe while shadowing some EMTs to see what you're getting yourself into.

 

[Terror Billy]

I would recommend scribe, I've heard from many that it's something that looks very good during a gap year. I too am pursuing it and hope to start in July if everything works out.

 

[spiffysteve]

I'd also say scribe. I was an EMT for several years before applying. While it was a great life experience and taught me a lot, I was told by a school that rejected me that it wasn't "physician-specific" experience, so they wanted more.

 

[drab]

I just wrapped up all the ems stuff, save the NREMT (taking it in two weeks or so). I never looked into scribing because it sounded very boring (may still try to do some eventually).

I took the EMS class through my old community college, with the expectation that it would be reimbursed by said college (who I also worked for at the time) but then the school turned out to be full of fraud and nepotism resulting in $8 million just up and gone away, so no reimbursement. I'm not salty, just broke, and salty.

But anyways, the experiences I had and will continue to have working with people in a rescue setting was awesome. You get direct patient interaction, nurse and doctor interactions, get used to reports and filling em out, you get to serve people directly, and it opens up other avenues. I am applying to be an EMT over the summer at a camp.

EMT gets my vote

 

[medic86]

I'd say scribing is way more valuable since you learn what goes into building a chart.

I'd go into these experiences for what you can learn rather than how good it makes you look.