Emergency Medical Technician

                                                      Emergency Medical Technician

Duties and Responsibilities:

Emergency medical technicians, or EMT’s, usually work in teams of two in specialties designed ambulances. They provide immediate life or limb saving medical treatment at the sense of the accidents and injuries as well as transport casualties to hospital emergency rooms for further care. The job is both physically demanding and stressful. Emergency medical technicians often respond to:

·         Automobile accidents

·         Heart attacks

·         Gunshot wounds

·         Unscheduled childbirth

·         Drowning

Average Salary: $25,000 - $37,000

Education Requirements:

Students must gave high school diploma (in some areas GED certificated may be substituted)

In order to become an emergency medical technician. Driver’s education, health, and science courses are strongly recommended and may be required before enrolling in some training programs.

Basic emergency medical technician training includes about 100-120 hours spent in classrooms and 10 hours in a hospital emergency room.