AGagnon

Haha... smoking WITH the oxygen through the BVM. I guess that would definitely go against the oxygen issue.

This was actually a project for a class on alternative healing methods.

This guy stopped (see link below), and that was after being at the national paramedic competition all day. As a student, I would definitely not stop unless I was in the middle of nowhere and the accident was really incredible. I think that I would rather not be a greater hazard by stopping and endangering myself, any passengers, and other drivers.

http://www.thestar.com/News/GTA/article/410907

Back to the original poster, I found that A&P was not too bad, but patho seems to be a lot of material. I found that taking a few big pieces of bristol board and a few sharpies and drawing how everything works together helped me to see the links, and made the material easier to understand. Also, don't just memorize the material, learn it and be able to work from the ground up when given a patient presentation in your labs or theory classes.

With regards to the colleges moving towards a three year program which you come out of as an ACP, I know here at Durham the program co-ordinator is trying to move towards a 4 year program in which you get PCP, ACP and a BSc or similar from the University of Ontario Institute of Technology on the same campus. There are people here in my class that came specifically for the reason that no PCP experience is required for the ACP program. In my opinion though, I think that working as a PCP would definitely be of benefit to your success in the ACP program, as long as you keep up on the knowledge that you learned in PCP school (and of course the working would help with the $13,000 price tag).

I am Andrew, a student in the Primary Care Paramedic program at Durham College in Oshawa Ontario. I hope that I can pick up some knowledge from this site!