Advanced emergency medical technician

Today's guest is doing something about it.

He's a 20-year fire service veteran, an active AEMT, a licensed professional counselor, and the founder of the Responder Health Lab at Tennessee Tech University.

He isn't sitting in an ivory tower telling us how we ought to feel.

He's on the front lines, running calls in his community, conducting groundbreaking research on firefighter suicide, cancer, and stress, and building practical blueprints to fix a broken culture.

So that's my hope and aspirations as well.

And then maybe after that, look at getting my paramedic or AEMT, whichever comes first, I think I go like this.

I take the AEMT route before I go the paramedic route.

Because once you have your AEMT, it's more like a stepping stone to paramedic.

And once you have that, once you develop that skill, it's like, yeah, it's great, perfect.

And I can do all that, you know? So it'd be something ideal and something I could consider.

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ALS level, and we have EMTs and AEMTs.

In reality, we, we probably just need to advance past the EMT role.

Right.

The crew types are often medic EMT or medic advanced EMT, but there are times when a cart slash ambulance will get staffed.

AEMT, AEMT.

And by the way, the ambulances are always stocked ALS regardless of the staffing.

So that doesn't change.