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EMT Training?

  • 30-11-2009 4:31pm
    #1
    Pebbles!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 206 ✭✭


    Hi all!
    I'm hoping some of ye out there can help me out with some information and advice, Im 18 years of age and in time I want to become a paramedic. I realise I have to complete the EMT course first, I know I can train privately in The national ambulance training institute but it's an expensive course and at the minute I just can't afford that! is there any funding you can get? It's a bit cheaper to do it in england but is your qualification recognised over here?? I don't really know how to go about it and my head is fried at this this!!!!


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  • #2
    DubMedic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,249 ✭✭✭DubMedic


    With regards to funding, contact FÁS and ask them.

    Paramedic in Ireland is 21 or over, as you need to have licenses.

    Regarding courses abroad , PHECC will consider each applicant who has completed these, on a case by case basis.


  • #3
    Leo Demidov
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 991 ✭✭✭Leo Demidov


    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055734894

    Try this link, it should answer some of your questions.

    You dont necesarily need to be a trained medic, but it might help. You aint getting in till you're 21 regardless as you wont have relevant driving licences. (You may be able to get funding if you are unemployed, not full sure on this though.) They reckon you should have First Responder training prior to EMT, but its certainly not essential.


  • #4
    5500
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,391 ✭✭✭5500


    Just to hop in, has anyone heard or know of any uk paramedics who have came to Ireland and what level they were awarded?

    The paramedic science degree's in the uk look good but i wonder how you'd fare off back here after doing it


  • #5
    maglite
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,783 ✭✭✭maglite


    Wex's reply is almost identical to the one i was about to write.


    Its on a one on one basis.

    As a rule of thumb as I understand it, a paramedic with road exp will get AP. Tech with exp with get Paramedic


  • #6
    Pebbles!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 206 ✭✭Pebbles!


    thanks for yer replies! Yeah I'm after e-mailing fas, I have to call in to them and discuss everything. That link was useful but i don't fancy going to do a college course for four years in england all the same! What i;m not thinking is doing the EMT course and then trying to work with a private ambulance service until I turn 21 and then try the hse?? what about maybe trying for a job within a hospital or something, it would stand to me when applying for the paramedics?!


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  • #7
    dogeyknees
    Closed Accounts Posts: 93 ✭✭dogeyknees


    Hi, sorry to hijack but i was looking at doing EMT but im fatally allergic to penicillin (anaphylactic shock). I take it that i couldn't be an EMT?


  • #8
    maglite
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,783 ✭✭✭maglite


    dogeyknees wrote: »
    Hi, sorry to hijack but i was looking at doing EMT but im fatally allergic to penicillin (anaphylactic shock). I take it that i couldn't be an EMT?


    Try not to pop pills on the job. You should be grand...


  • #9
    ch252
    Closed Accounts Posts: 668 ✭✭✭ch252


    Yeah I know and emt in the exact same case as described above, its fine.


  • #10
    b12mearse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 283 ✭✭b12mearse


    can you work on an ambulance after an emt course? or is there more to do


  • #11
    emer tech
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 105 ✭✭emer tech


    b12mearse wrote: »
    can you work on an ambulance after an emt course? or is there more to do

    You can apply to the private ambulance for a job as an EMT, why not join the voluntary ambulance service, you ll get experience and it will help when you apply for jobs, or paramedic training.;)


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  • #12
    b12mearse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 283 ✭✭b12mearse


    who are the voluntary ambulance services?


  • #13
    emer tech
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 105 ✭✭emer tech


    b12mearse wrote: »
    who are the voluntary ambulance services?
    Order of Malta, Red Cross, St Johns, Civil Defence. Provide first aid/ambulance cover at events such as concerts, horse racing, community events, patient transports ect.
    Organisations are made up from first aiders to advance paramedics and nurses, doctors.
    If your willing to work on a voluntary basis and carry out duties they will train you. Different levels are : First aid, (cfr) cardiac first responder , (Efr) emergency first responder, (Emt) emergency medical technician.
    Also could include other training, such as, Home nursing, patient handling, ambulance equipment ect.. Above organisations have units all over the country.


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