How to calculate EMS clinical hours.

[Princeton Medical Student]

So I am a paid employee at an EMS agency, which means I technically work a lot, but since I am in a smaller town usually only 3/8 hours would be occupied by patient care. How would I write my hours when time comes to it? Should I look up total number of hours worked and use that, or should I look up my patient charts and guesstimate an average time spent with patient?

Might be a silly question, but I am kinda unsure as to how it will go, and it would help me estimate where I am at.

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[Tenk]

Ummm are you listing this twice? Like once for employment and once for clinical exposure? Kind of redundant. Adcoms aren’t idiots. Just list the total hours under employment. This shouldn’t be your only clinical exposure.

 

[Catalystik]

So I am a paid employee at an EMS agency, which means I technically work a lot, but since I am in a smaller town usually only 3/8 hours would be occupied by patient care. How would I write my hours when time comes to it? Should I look up total number of hours worked and use that, or should I look up my patient charts and guesstimate an average time spent with patient?

Might be a silly question, but I am kinda unsure as to how it will go, and it would help me estimate where I am at.

Though you'd list your total paid work hours in the header, in your narrative you might guess-timate the percent of the time you are involved with patients, including recordkeeping. The hours will still come out to be significant.

 

[Princeton Medical Student]

Ummm are you listing this twice? Like once for employment and once for clinical exposure? Kind of redundant. Adcoms aren’t idiots. Just list the total hours under employment. This shouldn’t be your only clinical exposure.

Oh, I never intended to double dip no. I wanted to put it under clinical exposure.

 

[Kpw101]

Working as an EMT I had a lot of downtime also but I marked down my total shift hours. When asked about the nature of the job during interviews I was honest and mentioned that some shifts I got to stay in and study. I of course didn't leave out that some shifts felt like hell. Didn't have any issues this cycle.

 

[Tenk]

Oh, I never intended to double dip no. I wanted to put it under clinical exposure.

Then just list it with total hours.

 

[CaptainWEMT]

I'm planning on listing my EMS time as just total hours working/volunteering.