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Irish company running Paramedic course

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  • 15-01-2013 1:32am
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    kilograms
    Registered Users Posts: 203 ✭✭


    I hear a company in Ballymount are doing this course, starting this year. Anybody know what the price is and if there will be jobs when completed. Is it recognised in Ireland by Phecc,
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    EMTFlynn
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    Unless it was with the NAS i myself wouldn't bother :rolleyes:


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    antichrist
    Registered Users Posts: 166 ✭✭antichrist


    kilograms wrote: »
    I hear a company in Ballymount are doing this course, starting this year. Anybody know what the price is and if there will be jobs when completed. Is it recognised in Ireland by Phecc,

    Price in the ballpark of about 17000 not including expenses, will require you to work in the US for a year and is not guaranteed to be recognized by PHECC.

    As stated...if you wanna be a paramedic either wait for NAS or DFB to recruit or perhaps consider the UK


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    kilograms
    Registered Users Posts: 203 ✭✭kilograms


    its a lot of money for no guarantee of a job


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    bootybouncer
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    thats ridiculous, and if truth be told the dfb etc is a big click


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    antichrist
    Registered Users Posts: 166 ✭✭antichrist


    bootybouncer wrote: »
    thats ridiculous, and if truth be told the dfb etc is a big click

    DFB etc??? what do you mean by etc? the National Ambulance Service?


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    BoonDoc
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    antichrist wrote: »
    Price in the ballpark of about 17000 not including expenses, will require you to work in the US for a year and is not guaranteed to be recognized by PHECC.

    There are other options here in Ireland that are far less expensive. The US Paramedic is currently being offered by a Wexford based company with students already in the programme.

    There is also rumours about the US paramedic is being offered by a Galway company.

    Look around and don't settle for paying a tremendous amount of money for something that can be found with a more reasonable price tag.


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    antichrist
    Registered Users Posts: 166 ✭✭antichrist


    BoonDoc wrote: »

    Look around and don't settle for paying a tremendous amount of money for something that can be found with a more reasonable price tag.

    Its ok......I'm not looking anywhere. ....in the job here already


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    BoonDoc
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    kilograms wrote: »
    its a lot of money for no guarantee of a job

    There are plenty of jobs out there for US trained paramedics. The starting wage is £250-350 per day with a lot of the jobs tax free.

    Feel free to wait around for a decade to get hired on here in ireland.


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    miju
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    BoonDoc wrote: »
    There are plenty of jobs out there for US trained paramedics. The starting wage is £250-350 per day with a lot of the jobs tax free.

    links???????


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    BoonDoc
    Registered Users Posts: 82 ✭✭BoonDoc


    miju wrote: »
    links???????

    here and here

    These are jobs for ALS level paramedics. PHECC Paramedics are not ALS.


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    seven_eleven
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    Yep there even seems to be a fair bit of work available all over the US in general for EMT's and paramedics. Hell even in the UK there is. This country is horrible when it comes to gettting jobs in anything.


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    BoonDoc
    Registered Users Posts: 82 ✭✭BoonDoc


    seven_eleven wrote: »
    Yep there even seems to be a fair bit of work available all over the US in general for EMT's and paramedics. Hell even in the UK there is. This country is horrible when it comes to gettting jobs in anything.

    The nice thing about the offshore paramedic work is that you are on the oil rig for 3 weeks then back here in Ireland for 3 weeks. Some of the jobs are starting at £300 per day.

    It quickly offsets the cost for the International Paramedic course.

    The Wexford guys are charging €8500 for their US Paramedic course. I don't know what the Galway guys will be charging. At the moment the Dublin crowd are taking names and the Wexford crowd already have students on the course.

    I think that it is great to have options to earn your US Paramedic with training here in Ireland.


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    5500
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    So €17300 or €16800 for past students are the fee's for the dublin based course. I wish the guys and anyone who does it all the best but l think I would prefare the uk paramedic science degree route, whilst neither guarantee phecc reciprocity there's just alot less hoops to jump through from my reading in the Uk.


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    seven_eleven
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    From what I have heard about the private EMT courses, I think I would avoid the private paramedic for a while until I hear something positive about it.


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    19hz
    Registered Users Posts: 133 ✭✭19hz


    Serious cost...who the hell has 17,000 for a course. You could do a few years of medicine for that!


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    antichrist
    Registered Users Posts: 166 ✭✭antichrist


    BoonDoc wrote: »
    Feel free to wait around for a decade to get hired on here in ireland.

    Wait a decade? Really.....what do you base this on? You do sound a little bitter in this post

    Just an aside, but if you read the NAS education and competency strategic plan for 2012-2014 it does say there is a need to recruit 96 student paramedics in the next 2 years


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