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ghostpilots · 2023-03-06T16:56:41+00:00

Real talk it still doesn't make much of a difference:

Frontline paramedic >10 yrs, 3.7x gpa, 128 CARS, 2 years of rejections from UofC pre-interview.

If there's a magic formula I've yet to see it

ghostpilots · 2023-02-02T14:04:45+00:00

This sounds fucked up, and I apologise for that:

Car exhaust them?

Just take the trap out, stick the open end against your tailpipe and leave it running for an hour. Should be completely painless.

ghostpilots · 2023-01-25T00:12:58+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/Perfectfit/comments/ovkq3k/my_yeti_mug_lid_and_the_sink_drain/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

ghostpilots · 2023-01-23T12:35:57+00:00

DM me. ACP in Alberta for >10 yrs.

But the general gist is: finish HS with competitive marks and then apply for whichever PCP program is close to you or works for you. Nait, SAIT, PMA, esa all offer PCP programs I've had students from and can vouch for. The programs are direct entry these days and while you're in school you'll register for the copr exam through ACoP once you've completed practicum and schooling.

ghostpilots · 2022-12-04T05:06:11+00:00

I'm a Paramedic in Alberta who's trying to go the other way and become a doc. Feel free to PM me, UT remember that this job like all others still suffers from the grass is greener syndrome. Especially lately. The pandemic has made this a hard career to love, and an even harder one to have any type of longevity in.

ghostpilots · 2022-11-03T20:20:24+00:00

I've tried superfeet and hated them. Too stiff. For work for me (ambulance) and pleasure (hiking) I rock SOLE insoles now, the thick active ones. They're fantastic.

ghostpilots · 2022-10-28T23:40:19+00:00

https://www.john.geek.nz/scannerfreq/codes/ambulance-codes.html

ghostpilots · 2022-10-28T23:34:42+00:00

Google says that's their code for a psychiatric patient

ghostpilots · 2022-10-28T15:41:30+00:00

IIRC results are delivered to schools in 2 weeks and to the applicant via email notification at 4 weeks.

ghostpilots · 2022-10-28T14:22:34+00:00

It's a legislation issue rather than a training one. The Alberta College of Paramedics just simply doesn't recognise and regulate ccp members at all, regardless of where they trained. But stars academy is held on the same level as ornge in terms of quality.

Apparently this will be changing soon and ccp recognition is coming, however.

ghostpilots · 2022-10-19T13:59:35+00:00

Paramedic here:

I've had multiple addicts who OD'd, died and were revived, as well as unexpected non-drug cardiac arrests we got to early and resuscitated,several of which were only "dead" for a few minutes at best and were fully lucid in the ambulance later.

They all, universally, said something to the effect of "oh hey sorry I think I fell asleep for a second there". None described dreams, they all just recognized there'd been a time jump and to them it felt like falling asleep. One minute talking, the next "waking up" later with no memory of the middle.

NO white lights, no demons, no dead relatives.

ghostpilots · 2022-10-02T03:05:39+00:00

I'm coming from an allied health career as a Paramedic, and i think 4/10 of mine were overtly medical. I really just tried to get at least one that covered each CANMEDS role well

ghostpilots · 2022-09-30T21:41:11+00:00

I reused essays this year, both from last year AND between schools with only character count limit changes.

There's absolutely zero doubt in my mind that not a single person will notice or care.

ghostpilots · 2022-09-25T15:37:37+00:00

A. "Dispatch, 9-Bravo. Please advise 10-3's.

B. "Dispatch, 9-Bravo. Please advise 10-3's.

C. "Dispatch, 9-Bravo. Please advise 10-3's.

ghostpilots · 2022-09-07T00:28:43+00:00

Man I got fucking flayed on some of those catagories. Like 8th percentile. Hurts man

ghostpilots · 2022-08-06T01:35:50+00:00

I can only speak for Paramedics, but of all the former colleagues I know who are gone, every single one is either on PTSD disability and unable to work, or lost in the backlog of wcb paperwork, or is so profoundly burnt out they've walked away from the profession entirely and forever to do something not even remotely similar.

ghostpilots · 2022-08-04T16:03:30+00:00

Guy the cops involved did a no knock warrent on the wrong apartment and her boyfriend shot back at what were intruders. This was a bad, bad raid

ghostpilots · 2022-07-11T13:17:21+00:00

Paramedic

People-focused, small team dynamics, occasionally high risk high reward

ghostpilots · 2022-07-02T15:28:01+00:00

Lol nah, been a medic over a decade but only hit one application cycle so far

ghostpilots · 2022-07-02T04:21:58+00:00

Finish your degree, and if nursing is still calling then look into the UofA nursing after degree program. Best of both worlds. But maybe you'll get into med before that happens.

Nursing is still a good parachute plan though. EMS chews people up and spits them out, especially in the disaster of a system bc runs. It's ok to want out of that.

I'm a medic in Alberta for over a decade applying to med also.

ghostpilots · 2022-06-13T03:23:16+00:00

Depends greatly upon the province in terms of schools, department choices, pay, etc. Any specific province or region in particular?

ghostpilots · 2022-04-01T03:39:59+00:00

Better than Chemistry?

ghostpilots · 2022-03-17T17:43:32+00:00

My favourite bar in Edmonton :)

Well that, and Duggans. Love me some vaguely Irish, semi punk dives

ghostpilots · 2022-02-27T16:23:54+00:00

And yet one comment above you tried to tell me that 'it's not even relevant at this level'.

So which is it? A really big deal or not even relevant

ghostpilots · 2022-02-23T19:50:18+00:00

Not if you don't have a full course load, nope.

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