Posted on Aug 17, 2020
What routes can one go to earning a civilian Paramedic license in the military?
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This seems to be a common question among medics and more I have talked too. Also the transferring of only EMT current as most medical specialties earn in the civilian world is widely disputed as a under-cut of the education, and training they receive relevant to their MOS. I would like to hear from all branches the known routes to earning a paramedic cert through the military. I hope these posts will help educate health care personnel in the service find routes for this certification if they are interested.
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There are several posts that have created certification programs. CSM Michael Chavaree can tell you about the one at Bragg. Most of these are programs set up by ingenuitive NCOs working with local colleges or credentialing authorities. The Army itself doesn’t have a paramedic program outside the Flight Paramedic program.
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Look up Combat Paramedic on ATRRS. This is the phase 1 course for Flight Paramedics now, phase 2 is followed up by Critical Care Paramedic and phase 3 at Fort Rucker. I’ve heard that it’s going to be possible to just go to Combat Paramedic in the future but for now it is reserved for Flight Paramedic students.
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Do you think they will never make the paramedic part of the initial 68W pipeline just due to the probable fail out rate?
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SPC (Join to see) It’s too much money and would take too much time. The Paramedic program itself would take 6 months including ride outs and clinicals that would have to happen in a hospital and with EMS. For hundreds of people a class out of AIT that would be nearly impossible and you’d still have to do EMT first due to the requirement of needing EMT certification to go to Paramedic school. I could see at most (and I think they should) allow people to test for AEMT certification after whiskey phase. For Paramedic to be standard they would have to entirely overall the AIT pipeline and it wouldn’t be possible to fill all of the medic slots in the Army as people ETS and retire.
Even on the Flight Paramedic side we’re having issues filling all of our flight paramedic positions as people get out and there are less than 2000 of us in the entirety of the force, active duty, reserve and NG.
Even on the Flight Paramedic side we’re having issues filling all of our flight paramedic positions as people get out and there are less than 2000 of us in the entirety of the force, active duty, reserve and NG.
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If you were active duty you would be required to go. But since you are in the National Guard they would have to put you on active duty to send you. Your state may have a partnership program that you can go to as a civilian. Your education center may be able to help. But I have never seen anyone in the Guard go to EMT training while only in a M-Day status.
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Asking for general information for others. I am already certified. All 68W for Army get certified as a EMT-B. This conversation relates to EMT-P. Completely higher level of care.
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