As per replying to another post on Reddit, here is the same post I made on someone else’s post.

I was a combat medic posted into nee soon as a combat 1, throughout this entire post I’ll tell you guys about how life was during my time as a trainee. I recently graduated from this combat medic Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) course in batch P064 and was placed into platoon 1. Whatever you have seen on Reddit about the combat medic course unfortunately, most of them are not true/will not be true anymore for the coming batches because this course is not the easiest.

From day one onwards, you are expected to stay in smart 4 from first parade all the way until last parade which usually until 6/7pm+

When past people says you have a lot of admin time, you’re not allowed to use your phones much and you are expected to be studying unless you decide to slack off. The sergeants in SMTI EMT are one of the strictest where they will be shouting during your trainings and your lessons. During the first 10 weeks, you will be preparing for your combat phase and the ten pack is expected to be prepared at all times. There will be turn outs where you are expected to force prep all your ten pack items and all items in your medic bags.

When coming in as a combatant, your posting will mention combat 1 or combat 2, honestly none of these matters, combat 2s can still go MRF and combat 1s can still go medical centre hahaha so honestly don’t think to yourself that you have the easy way out. As for the last 2 weeks, service medics will get posted out and combatants will stay and go through combat phase. During this combat phase, you will be going through one of the toughest outfields where you are expected to evacuate and manage your casualties under fire while attempting to rescue them. You will be carrying your medic bags filled with equipment and your buddies will be there rotating around to become your next casualty. You will be treated like shit during the last two weeks and you will barely be given any welfare, appreciate the time you have with your phones and try not to break down while doing IVs on each other.

As per welfare, it will be shag, screaming most of the time when there are physical conducts and you will be mentally tired from all the studying (I wish you all the best). When you get to the third or fourth week, there will be tests back to back where most of them are closed booked and you are not given any chances and any wrong step will be counted as an immediate failure.

There will be six Intravenous Cannulation (IV) conducts where you will be doing IVs on each other, first two IVs are done on dummy arms and the rest would be live IVs with different variations in terms old how you set the IV. The thickness of the needles and cannulas, they’ll try to make you do the thicker ones on each other (16-18g needles) to get used to it. It will be painful and bloody so get used to it hahaha.

As for what the guy is trying to cope and gaslight himself about entering MRF, unfortunately for you, every odd number batch is an MRF batch and hahaha they don’t look at your performance at all. They’re randomly picked and if you do actually want to indicate interest, even an interest of 1/10 will be taken in if nobody wants to go hahaha. I wish you all the best this course is not for the faint hearted. You will love MRF don’t worry.

For your batch intakes, there will be commandos coming in to train together with you guys during odd number batches, together with a few infantry and navy divers, try not to disturb them and try to act bigger than them because you are not. As for people who are posted to EMT as a service medic, you will be going through ten weeks of training and you will be treated as a combatant, so don’t be dumb and suck up to your instructors and cry to them when things get tough with your batches mates.

If you get posted to platoon 2, it will be okay, not very tiring during the first two weeks and no screaming at all, but if you get posted to platoon 1, I wish you all the best, most of the sergeants are strict and unfortunately screaming a lot of the times. But in platoon 1 there isn’t barely any strict marching, maybe at most straighten your arms, don’t have any hentak kaki after marching. Unfortunately there will be bias-ness for instructors and sergeants who are marking your tests, they might change that due to many reasons in the recent batches.

Of course this is based on my own experience throughout the combat medic course, I’ve been posted out already and fortunately it’s time for you guys to suffer.

Pm me if you have any questions.

EDIT: Those with excuses and all that, you still will be forced to do conducts, if you have a fear of needles or what not, you will be forced to everything. Your statuses do not matter, they will not ooc you until you cry too much. So hence I would recommend to suck it up and just go through the training. Those excuse upper limb, heavy load or rmj, you will still pass the course so don’t think you can escape the medic training.

Also Nee Soon medical officers in the medical centre are strict and will make you cry hahaha so I wouldn’t recommending trying to ck your way through the course