Entry Level Qualification 

12

Career Fields 

Allied & Para Medical Science

For Specially Abled 

Career Entrance Exam 

CUET UG, AIIMS BSC

About Career 

1. As an Emergency Medical Technician, you will be responding to emergency calls to provide emergency medical support and care to patients who are critically ill or injured. You will be responsible for transporting the patients to a medical facility within a stipulated time limit. 

2. As an Emergency Medical Technician (Paramedic), you will be administering medications, starting intravenous lines for injecting medicines or IV fluids (like saline, dextrose, etc.), providing advanced airway management for patients, and learning to resuscitate and support patients with significant problems such as heart attacks and traumas. You will be supervising other EMTs and other emergency medical responders who have less training than they do. You will be responsible for performing medical services and transporting patients to medical facilities.

3. As an EMT Paramedic, you will be working in an ambulance that is equipped with all life support medications and machinery. You will also be initiating advanced life support measures, which include the use of a defibrillator, intravenous therapy along with a connection to mechanical breathing devices. You will be providing or supervising basic life support such as CPR (Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation). You will be performing and interpreting medical tests by using equipment such as electrocardiogram machines. In cases of poisoning or drug overdose, you will have to administer antidotes.

Key Roles and Responsibilities

As an Emergency Medical Technician (Paramedic), you will have the following roles and responsibilities:

1. You will be analyzing the emergencies, and the severity of the patient’s illness or injury and then prioritize the first level of medical procedures accordingly.

2. You will be administrating basic first aid and life support care facilities to prevent patient conditions from worsening before they reach the hospital.

3. You will be performing emergency diagnostic and treatment procedures, such as stomach suction, airway management, or heart monitoring, during the ambulance ride.

4. You will have to ensure that the medical equipment and first aid supplies are always replenished after providing treatments to patients.

5. You will have to record, observe, and report (to the physician) the patient’s condition or injury, the treatment provided, and reactions to drugs or treatment if any.

6. You might have to comfort and reassure the patient as well as the visitors or relatives.   

7. You need to make sure that the workstation is clean, sanitized, and organized.

8. You will be coordinating work with other EMTs police or other departments if required.

Career Entry Pathway 

Class 10 all subjects as per the scheme of studies – Class 11-12 Physics, Chemistry, and Biology along with any other subject as per the scheme of studies – Obtain an NSQF Level 4 Qualification in Emergency Medical Technician-Basic.

After completing class 12, you can obtain an NSQF (National Skills Qualification Framework) Level 4 Qualification in Emergency Medical Technician-Basic. This NSQF Level 4 qualification training in Emergency Medical Technician-Basic is 360 hours of duration (i.e., 240 hours for classroom and skill lab training + 120 hours of Clinical or Laboratory Training).

After completing class 12 in school or after obtaining an NSQF (National Skills Qualification Framework) Level 4 Qualification in Emergency Medical Technician-Basic with a minimum of 3 years of experience, you can obtain an NSQF (National Skills Qualification Framework) Level 5 Qualification in Emergency Medical Technician-Advanced. This NSQF Level 5 qualification in Emergency Medical Technician-Advanced is 1000 hours of duration (i.e., 750 hours for classroom and skill lab training + 250 hours of Clinical or Laboratory Training).

After completing class 12, you may apply for a Certificate in Emergency Medical Technician (Basic and Advanced) from any vocational or private institute. Nowadays various private institutions, as well as some private foundations are providing certification in Emergency Medical Technician (Basic and Advanced, both).

Required Qualification & Competencies 

After completing Class12, you can:

1. Obtain NSQF Level 4 Qualification in Emergency Medical Technician-Basic.

2. Obtain NSQF Level 5 Qualification in Emergency Medical Technician-Advanced (after completing class 12 or after obtaining NSQF Level 4 Qualification in Emergency Medical Technician-Basic with a minimum of 3 years of experience).

3. Apply for a Certificate in Emergency Medical Technician (Basic or Advanced or both).

Competencies Required

Interests

1. Social: You should have an interest in Social Occupations. Social occupations involve helping or assisting others; these involve working with and communicating with people to provide various services; these may involve educating and advising others.

2. Investigative: You should have an interest in Investigative Occupations. Investigative occupations involve working with ideas and quite a lot of thinking, often abstract or conceptual thinking. These involve learning about facts and figures; involve the use of data analysis, assessment of situations, decision-making, and problem-solving.

3. Conventional: You should have interests in Conventional Occupations. Conventional occupations involve repetitive and routine tasks as well as fixed processes or procedures for getting things done. These occupations involve working more with data, systems, and procedures and less with ideas or creativity.

Knowledge

1. Healthcare Science and Services: Knowledge of different fields that are related to offering various types of healthcare services to people; assisting physicians and surgeons to carry out diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of human diseases, ailments, and disorders. This includes knowledge of different practices apart from medicine which is used to treat and prevent human diseases or to provide holistic healthcare and wellness. This also includes knowledge about drugs and medicines.

2. Personal Care Service: Knowledge of how to provide various assistance and services to others. This includes looking after the needs of individuals, understanding what they need, and providing all assistance at home or elsewhere.

Skills

1. Active Listening: Giving full attention to what other people are saying, understanding the points being made by others, asking questions, etc.

2. Coordination: Skills in working together with other people to get things done.

3. Critical Thinking: Skills in the analysis of complex situations, using logic and reasoning to understand the situations and take appropriate actions or make interpretations and inferences.

4. Judgment and Decision Making: Skills in considering the pros and cons of various decision alternatives; considering costs and benefits; and making appropriate and suitable decisions.

5. Problem Solving: Skills in analysis and understanding of problems, evaluating various options to solve the problems, and using the best option to solve the problems.

Abilities

1. Emotional Intelligence: The ability to understand you’re own and others' emotions and feelings; empathy for others; adjusting your behavior or self-control and self-regulation according to others' emotions and situations.

2. Hand-eye coordination: The ability to make quick and precise hand movements as per visual observations and understanding (that is, what you see and comprehend).

3. Inter-Personal: The ability to build and maintain good relationships with others at workplaces and elsewhere.

4. Problem Sensitivity: The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.

5. Selective Attention: The ability to concentrate on a task over a long period without being distracted.

6. Written Comprehension: The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.

Personality

1. You are always or mostly organized in your day-to-day life and activities.

2. You are always or mostly a soft-hearted person.

3. You are always or mostly helpful to others.

4. You are always or mostly caring, supportive, sympathetic, and kind to others.

5. You remain calm in difficult situations sometimes but some other times you are anxious.

6. You act independently sometimes but do not do so at some other times.

7. You always or mostly prefer to stick within a routine or carry out routine and repetitive activities.

Career - Job Opportunities & Profiles 

1. At the beginning of your career, you may find job opportunities as an assistant or intern or Primary Care Emergency Medical Technician. Later on, after gaining experience, you may become an Emergency Medical Technician or Advanced Emergency Medical Technician. 

2. You may find job opportunities in various Government as well as Private Hospitals, community health centers, nursing homes, doctor’s clinics, and other health care facilities.

Work Environment

As an EMT Paramedic, you will be working in all types of weather conditions. You will be working in a physically strenuous and stressful situation. As an EMT Paramedic, your major activities involve kneeling, bending, and lifting while caring for and moving patients, which can cause a higher rate of injuries. You might be exposed to some contagious health diseases, such as hepatitis B and AIDS. You will be working as a full-time worker usually for more than 40 hours a week sometimes you might have to work overnight and on weekends too.

Specialisation Tracks In This Career

1. Emergency Medical Technician-Basic

As an EMT-Basic, you will be involved in providing emergency medical support and care to patients who are critically ill or injured and transporting them to a medical facility or hospital within the stipulated time limits.

2. Emergency Medical Technician-Advanced

As an EMT-Advanced, you will be trained in providing an advanced level of care to patients with significant problems such as heart attacks and traumas. Advanced Emergency Medical Technicians are more trained and interned so that they can provide a greater range of medication and perform more procedures.

Career Growth

With an Emergency Medical Technician career, you may find limited job opportunities. After gaining certain experience along with some higher training/qualification you may move from Basic Emergency Medical Technician to Advanced Emergency Medical Technician.

Salary Offered  

1. At the beginning of your career, you may earn about Rs. 5,000 – 12,500 per month.

2. With 3-5 years of experience, you may earn about Rs. 10,000-18,000 or even more per month.

3. With 8-10 years of experience, you may earn about Rs. 15,000 – 25,000 or even more per month.

4. In Government jobs or Government hospitals, you may look forward to much higher earnings. You will begin with about Rs. 18,000- 22,000 a month. You will get yearly increments and you may look forward to earning about Rs. 30,000 – 70,000 a month after 11-15 years of experience.

Monthly Earnings In Indian Rupee

1. Entry level: 0 - 2 years of work experience

2. Junior Level: From 1 to 12 years of work experience

3. Mid-Level: From 5 to 20+ years of work experience

4. Senior Level: From 10 to 25+ years of work experience (there could be exceptions in some high-end technical, financial, engineering, creative, management, sports, and other careers; also shortly, people will reach these levels much faster in many careers and some careers, these levels will have no meaning as those careers will be completely tech skill driven such as even now, there is almost no level in a Cyber Security Expert’s job)

Famous Personalities 

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Work Activities 

1. Analyzing and interpreting data and information: Analysis of data and information to find facts, trends, reasons behind situations, etc.; interpretation of data to aid in decision-making.

2. Assisting and caring for people: Assisting people in availing of services; taking care of people in different situations; offering help and services to others.

3. Communicating with co-workers and others: Communicating with people in writing, verbally or otherwise inside your workplace and various other people who have professional relationships with your place of work including vendors, government officials, etc., or with people at large.

4. Decision-making and problem-solving: Analysis of data and information; evaluation of alternative decisions and results of decisions; taking the right decisions and solving problems.

5. Getting Information and learning: Observing, hearing, reading, using computers, or otherwise obtaining information and learning from it.

6. Identifying objects, actions, and events: Identifying various characteristics of objects; observing and understanding actions and events; understanding changes in actions and events.

7. Inspecting situations, events, and people: Inspecting situations, events, and people to understand the reasons and causes for the situation or events to happen; inspecting people to understand reasons behind their behavior and actions.

8. Updating and using relevant knowledge: Keeping updated with the latest knowledge relevant to your fields of work and using the relevant knowledge in getting things done.

9. Working directly with people: Working directly with people to offer them products and services, providing assistance, etc.