MD Keeping EMT-B license during medical school?

[winnerwinnerbingo]

Hey all,
I'm a 3rd year medical student and my EMT-B license is about to expire but I'm wondering if I should bother renewing it (will have to take a refresher course (about $600) as per state regulations). I haven't been able to work much during medical school to begin with but I always tell myself... "just in case I hop back on the ambulance for fun". Thoughts? Any former EMT-B's on here care to chime in?

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[frosted2]

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I'm a current medic who is applying to med school, I also plan to keep my numbers "just incase" 🙂

When do you expire? You should be able to get some of your recert hours online (PM me and i can send you the link for a few services that do webinars)/from your med school courses (I always entered my undergrad courses and it counted).

 

[OrthoTraumaMD]

I let mine expire. You won’t have time to do it once residency hits.


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[RNthenDoc]

I know MDs who kept medic and nursing licenses active throughout residency. For funzies. (These only require online CEUs here, though)

I have read that in some states you actually have restrictions on what current licenses you may have, and that I will have to surrender my RN upon licensure as an MD. THAT is worth looking into. Licensure trouble that delayed residency sounds like a nightmare

 

[Gurby]

For the NREMT you can do "re-cert by exam", where you just take the written test again. No need to waste time on refreshers and CEU's, just fork over the $200.

As a paramedic, I feel like I may as well do this. Maybe it's not worth it for EMT-B though.

 

[frosted2]

For the NREMT you can do "re-cert by exam", where you just take the written test again. No need to waste time on refreshers and CEU's, just fork over the $200.

As a paramedic, I feel like I may as well do this. Maybe it's not worth it for EMT-B though.

Are you going into EM, @Gurby ?

 

[Gurby]

Are you going into EM, @Gurby ?

It's not off the table, but I think it's unlikely that I will end up doing EM.

I think I would love the actual "seeing patients and doing medicine" part of EM, but would get burnt out real fast by the non-medicine part of it: social work, trying to get people beds in psych programs or nursing homes, trying to get people admitted, etc.

I'm only in M2 at this point though, so everything is subject to change once clinical rotations start and I can get a more realistic picture of what it would actually be like to work in different fields.

 

[InternistDO]

For those in states that use CME credits instead of a recert class, most of them will accept med school credits as CME credits, which means you'll have more than enough.

 

[frosted2]

For those in states that use CME credits instead of a recert class, most of them will accept med school credits as CME credits, which means you'll have more than enough.

Good to know for future reference. Thanks!

 

[MedicineN'Jazz]

Hey all,
I'm a 3rd year medical student and my EMT-B license is about to expire but I'm wondering if I should bother renewing it (will have to take a refresher course (about $600) as per state regulations). I haven't been able to work much during medical school to begin with but I always tell myself... "just in case I hop back on the ambulance for fun". Thoughts? Any former EMT-B's on here care to chime in?

Honestly, I've been debating the same thing myself. I think I'll just let my license expire, and then volly for the heck of it after residency

 

[NicMouse64]

Hey all,
I'm a 3rd year medical student and my EMT-B license is about to expire but I'm wondering if I should bother renewing it (will have to take a refresher course (about $600) as per state regulations). I haven't been able to work much during medical school to begin with but I always tell myself... "just in case I hop back on the ambulance for fun". Thoughts? Any former EMT-B's on here care to chime in?

Not worth it. Everything you can do as a EMT-B you can do as a medical student plus a lot more as med student. Looking back I realize what a joke it was and how Bad A** we thought we were when we really knew absolutely nothing.

 

[OneTwoThreeFour]

It's not off the table, but I think it's unlikely that I will end up doing EM.

I think I would love the actual "seeing patients and doing medicine" part of EM, but would get burnt out real fast by the non-medicine part of it: social work, trying to get people beds in psych programs or nursing homes, trying to get people admitted, etc.

I'm only in M2 at this point though, so everything is subject to change once clinical rotations start and I can get a more realistic picture of what it would actually be like to work in different fields.

Hey bud-certainly not trying to sway you one way or the other but I'd say that the social work and placement issues are largely IM problems and not so much EM problems (coming from an EM intern). I have yet to call a facility to place a patient in my 6 months of residency (something I did on my IM rotation dozens of times). There are definitely reasons to not do EM but this shouldn't be one!

 

[Gurby]

Hey bud-certainly not trying to sway you one way or the other but I'd say that the social work and placement issues are largely IM problems and not so much EM problems (coming from an EM intern). I have yet to call a facility to place a patient in my 6 months of residency (something I did on my IM rotation dozens of times). There are definitely reasons to not do EM but this shouldn't be one!

What do you do about disposition for those patients who aren't medically sick enough to be admitted, but who can't/shouldn't be discharged to the street corner? Is there a team that handles that for you, or do you get them beds on an inpatient service and then IM deals with it?

 

[OneTwoThreeFour]

What do you do about disposition for those patients who aren't medically sick enough to be admitted, but who can't/shouldn't be discharged to the street corner? Is there a team that handles that for you, or do you get them beds on an inpatient service and then IM deals with it?

Social work, case management, if we really worry they go to observation overnight. I think I called for essentially one social work admit. If people are stable enough to walk out, though, they will get a sheet of paper with 24 hour resources, maybe a bus token.

 

[frosted2]

Social work, case management, if we really worry they go to observation overnight. I think I called for essentially one social work admit. If people are stable enough to walk out, though, they will get a sheet of paper with 24 hour resources, maybe a bus token.

Thats how it was when I worked as a tech... they'd give them a cab voucher and hurry them on their way.

 

[DrDarce]

Mine expired. I kinda forgot about it but shelling out 600 is not worth it imo

 

[pericardium]

Current 3rd year, let my paramedic state license expire because I had no time to renew. Not happy about it, but practically speaking I haven't ever come close to needing to use it.

Also FYI, in California at least, med school unfortunately does not count as CEs for licensure renewal. College credits in general, med school included can only make up half of your required CEs.

 

[Raney Schauer]

Unless you got time for that, ain't nobody got time for that.