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The paramedic role is closely related to other healthcare positions, especially the emergency medical technician, with paramedics often being at a higher grade with more responsibility and autonomy following substantially greater education and training. [2]
Is usually made up of 3 levels in the US. EMT-B, EMT-I (EMT-A in some states) and EMT-Paramedic. The National Registry of EMT New Educational Standards for EMS renamed the provider levels as follows: Emergency Medical Responder (EMR), Emergency Medical Technician (EMT-B), Advanced EMT (AEMT), and Paramedic (EMT-P).
In the United States, paramedicine is the physician-directed practice of medicine, often viewed as the intersection of health care, public health, and public safety.While discussed for many years, the concept of paramedicine was first formally described in the EMS Agenda for the Future. [1]
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“Being a paramedic, it’s not going to pay as much as the nursing jobs I could have had, but I’m going to like what I’m doing and I’ll still make a comfortable living,” he said ...
The department made a disciplinary recommendation to suspend each paramedic's certification for a minimum of six months while still allowing them to practice in the field with a reduced certification.
Paramedic education programs can be as short as six months or as long as four years. An associate degree program is two years, often administered through a community college. Degree programs are an option, with two-year associate degree programs being most common, although four-year bachelor's degree programs exist.
[1] "The chances are even better that your emergency call will be answered by a police or fire vehicle doing double duty instead of an adequately equipped ambulance and a paramedic trained in 'first responder' care." [2] There were some earlier uses of "first response", though not "first responder", in this sense.