Originally Posted by
Jsty
That may be true, but the qualifications to become a licensed paramedic are far from standardized. I think where I'm from, in Alaska, two or three classes are required. Would you rather have a guy who barely passed his classes while training to become a licensed paramedic, or the guy who barely passed his classes for 14 years to become a licensed doctor?
I can certainly understand the airlines viewpoint. For the record, I'd rather have a licensed paramedic. I think the skills that they are taught are far better at stabilizing someone in transit.
I believe you are confusing a Paramedic with an EMT an EMT may be a short course as you mentioned but to become a Paramedic it takes about a year and 100’s of hours of hands on clinical rotations where the main focus is emergency medicine as a matter of fact Paramedics are the ones teaching in hospitals to the new resident physicians emergency cardiac care