How to count Medical Training such as CPR and Wilderness First Aid?

[FutureZooVet]

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So I'm going to be taking at least Wilderness First Aid, a 30 hour course, or more likely, Wilderness First Responder which is an 80 hour course. Both are emergency medicine courses designed to prepare participants to assist others who are injured/sick in the back country. Both include basic first aid and CPR certification as well as more advanced training more pertinent to wilderness situations. I'm wondering how the hours will be counted in my application? Obviously this will be people, not animals. Is there an option for human medical training, or is it like research used to be categorized in the past and thrown into the "veterinary experience" category?

Thanks!

 

[cadisestrama]

So I'm going to be taking at least Wilderness First Aid, a 30 hour course, or more likely, Wilderness First Responder which is an 80 hour course. Both are emergency medicine courses designed to prepare participants to assist others who are injured/sick in the back country. Both include basic first aid and CPR certification as well as more advanced training more pertinent to wilderness situations. I'm wondering how the hours will be counted in my application? Obviously this will be people, not animals. Is there an option for human medical training, or is it like research used to be categorized in the past and thrown into the "veterinary experience" category?

Thanks!

Well if it's not under a DVM, I would not put it under veterinary experience (since veterinary experience is experience under a vet). And since you're not doing research, I would not put it under research experience either. I think, I would probably put it under community activity experience since it doesn't fit under any of the other experience types.

 

[cowgirla]

So I'm going to be taking at least Wilderness First Aid, a 30 hour course, or more likely, Wilderness First Responder which is an 80 hour course. Both are emergency medicine courses designed to prepare participants to assist others who are injured/sick in the back country. Both include basic first aid and CPR certification as well as more advanced training more pertinent to wilderness situations. I'm wondering how the hours will be counted in my application? Obviously this will be people, not animals. Is there an option for human medical training, or is it like research used to be categorized in the past and thrown into the "veterinary experience" category?

Thanks!

Honestly, (and take this with a grain of salt because its been a few years since I applied), I think I would have put it under community activities.

Or, once you have the certificate of completion or whatever, maybe under awards/achievements.

 

[beatles1964]

So I'm going to be taking at least Wilderness First Aid, a 30 hour course, or more likely, Wilderness First Responder which is an 80 hour course. Both are emergency medicine courses designed to prepare participants to assist others who are injured/sick in the back country. Both include basic first aid and CPR certification as well as more advanced training more pertinent to wilderness situations. I'm wondering how the hours will be counted in my application? Obviously this will be people, not animals. Is there an option for human medical training, or is it like research used to be categorized in the past and thrown into the "veterinary experience" category?

Thanks!

I just applied last week so VMCAS is fresh in my mind. I would definitely add both those trainings under community activities. Once you add a new category you can add a short description and how many hours each training course was. There's also an explanation statement section, but I don't think you'd enter this info in that section.

 

[dalmatiandoc17]

I personally put my CPR certification under awards/honors. I thought about community activities, but outside of the class to actually get it, I never really did anything with it so I figured it didn't really belong there. However, your classes seem much more involved than just a CPR course though so I think you could even get away with putting them under community experience. 30 hours is a good chunk of time that I think could make your community experience more interesting/diverse.

 

[cadisestrama]

I personally put my CPR certification under awards/honors. I thought about community activities, but outside of the class to actually get it, I never really did anything with it so I figured it didn't really belong there. However, your classes seem much more involved than just a CPR course though so I think you could even get away with putting them under animal experience. 30 hours is a good chunk of time that I think could make your animal experience more interesting/diverse.

i'm not sure if i understand your reasoning for putting them under animal experience. i thought animal experience was any experience working with "animals" (like other species - not humans)?

 

[FutureZooVet]

Thank you for all of your replies! I should mention that I'm taking these courses because I will be leading other students on hiking, camping, and other outdoor recreation trips.
Of course I'm not being supervised by a veterinarian. However in the past we've been told to count research under a PhD as "veterinary". Since its medical training on a people, technically an animal, I wasn't sure how they might want me to categorize it. I think I like the idea of listing my certification, along with hours. Then I'll explain my training and experience under "leadership". Anyway, thanks again!

 

[dalmatiandoc17]

i'm not sure if i understand your reasoning for putting them under animal experience. i thought animal experience was any experience working with "animals" (like other species - not humans)?

CRAP! This is what I get for responding on like no sleep. I completely meant community experiences! 😳 Thanks for correcting me cadisestrama 🙂

 

[crazycatlady]

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[cadisestrama]

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[dalmatiandoc17]

eek! I didn't meant to correct you. Sorry, I was just confused (and I get confused easily).

No really, I'm glad you did. I wouldn't have looked back and realized what I did and I'm sure more people would have been confused!