Guest guest Posted March 12, 1999 Report Share Posted March 12, 1999 Your an Educator for who?? What college?? L POWELL wrote: > You know it might interest you to know that medical schools interview > applicants with ALL sorts of degrees. My husband is a student at Baylor > College of Medicine. He has classmates with a music degree, computer > programming degree, vet, philosophy degree and various and other > interesting backgrounds. They want people that have a WIDE field of > vision and can take a subject indepth. Every one of them will do fine in > the medical field. > > You know there is a man who got a degree in music along with another > degrtee - DeBakey, world renowned heart surgeon. If you talk to > him he will tell you, his music degree reinforced the creative side of > him, which helps him solve the inside, invisible to the eye medical > problems. It is called integrated problem-based solving. You can teach > a monkey to fly in space - that's been proven. But didactic, EMS only, > education will make us all the same. The medical field is strong becuase > you have many doctors with different backgrounds who approach the same > problem differently. It's how medicine has advanced in the field. We, > in EMS, need to be dynamic and advance. > > Again, you'll always have your certification. No one will take that. > But I, for one, would like to have the ability to address the Nurse > Practice Act someday. I would like to invent the future of EMS - for > there will have to be more than riding in the back of the ambulance to > keep things going. > > Widen your field of vision. It's a big world. > > , an educator who works in the field. > > On Wed, 10 Mar 1999 18:53:24 -0600 > writes: > >Thanks Tom!! > > Some are still trying to understand folks on this list. When you > >disagree or > >complain, they say you had your chance or get involved. Then when you > >get involved > >your the stupid step-child of EMS. Not anymore. That means every year > >in EHCAC > >we'll be there, and every two years in the legislature. So those that > >don't agree > >will just have to live with what we call a Democratic Process. I > >wonder how many > >that are posting that are licensed, and there degree is in music? > >If anyone will look on page 18 and 19 of the Jems supplement Research > >Forum, they > >will find the answer in the articles and Research done on Paramedic > >Licensure and > >Education. I hope the opposition will take the time to read the > >research. > >Thanks > > EMT-P > > > ___________________________________________________________________ > You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. > Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html > or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Internet FileZone: Always FREE! > Instantly store & access your valuable PC files on the net, > from any Web browser. > SIGN UP NOW - http://offers./click/235/0 > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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