EMT training or internship?!?

[paki20]

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I'm going to be a junior and was interested in becoming an EMT. Is it worth doing now considering I'm a junior and will be applying to med school in basically one year? Or should I do an ethics internship for my minor instead? Both sound really interesting but both have meetings at the same time. Which one would "look better" when applying for med school? I don't have that much clinical experience by the way.

Any advice or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

 

[naimist]

Hey paki,
I'd say it's pretty useless to get your EMT cert now if you're applying next year and if you're not planning to do anything with it. If you can take a class this summer and then either volunteer or get a paid job as an EMT as soon as you're done then it could help in terms of the clinical experience, although it still won't be a significant amount of time you have working/volunteering. I wouldn't get the cert just to put on your application because the cert won't mean anything without the experience behind it.

Either way, do what interests you more rather than worrying about what looks more impressive to the med schools. If you think you'd like being an EMT then go for it. Otherwise do your ethics internship.

 

[Emergency!]

I agree with naimist. Unless you plan to volunteer or work as an EMT during your senior year, I don't think obtaining your EMT card will help your application much.

 

[ZAZA67401]

unless you do it as a backup plan (EMT) for the year after you graduate. Then you could (if you don't get accepted) work as an emt or er tech and make money while gaining more clinical experience. Otherwise, everyone else has pretty much said it, an EMT card alone won't help your application.

 

[paki20]

Thanks for all the replies! I really do appreciate it. If I do become an EMT I am definitly going to volunteer/work during the summer before senior year. But would it still be worth it considering I'd have only a few months of actual work by the time I apply?

 

[45408]

what's the job availability like for EMTs in your area? find that out first, because it took me a while to land a job (but I took the course the fall of my sophomore year, so I still had time)