Ride alongs

[FormerEMSLT297]

I am an EMTB in NJ- I would love to learn more and get some good real workd experience by doing a ride along with some BLS providers with higher call volumes that maybe run in some of the cities. Do many of them accept ride alongs? Not sure where to start.

While I will not try to discourage you from doing any ridealongs, some agencies, limit what contact you have with patients, while still others, like DC fire now forbid ridealongs out of patient privacy concerns. The other thing I will say is that I do not believe you will get much REAL WORLD experience riding as a 3rd person on a unit.

The real way to get real experience is to get a full time jobs riding on a busy unit with a good partner that will show you the ropes.

[Richard B the EMT]

It has been a while, but I have been host to US Army student Medics, and US Navy student Corpsmen (can they come up with a non gender specific name sometime before the end of this decade?) on my FDNY BLS ambulance. This was authorized by FDNY Headquarters, 9 Metrotech Plaza, Brooklyn, NY 11201.

I don't know if they allow any ride-alongs, nowadays, for military or civilian personnel, other than new EMTs in the FDNY, but with the address here, feel free to write and ask.