AMR/Medic One

[Serenity]

Anyone here an EMT or EMT-P for either of these companies? Mind answering some questions I have via PM if you do?

 

Thanks,

 

Serenity

[iluka]

AMR and Medic-One are fundamentally different organizations.

 

AMR is a privately owned company whose ambulances are driven largely by EMTs, with occasional critical care nurse support based on the type of patient they are transporting.

 

Medic-One is run out of the Seattle fire department. They only use paramedics and do not use EMTs. The parmaedics have a much higher level of training than EMTs who drive for AMR. Almost all paramedics who work for Medic-One come to the organization after having been fire fighters in the SFD for several years before hand and it is extremely rare for them to hire someone who was not trained in the Medic-One paramedic training program. The rules differ slightly for the Medic-One systems in outlying areas such as Shoreline Medic One, Bellevue Medic-One etc. although for the most part they also only hire people who went through training with the Seattle paramedic training program.

[rbw1966]

I worked as an EMT for AMR briefly--in PDX