FDNY EMT Exam # 2004 Question

[mtnmedic 36]

A friend who is on the list claimed they're in the low 400s. Don't really know for sure. Call DCAS?

[bronxfire9041 0]

Pay comes out to about $750/$800 every 2 weeks. The physical is a joke and they make piss test you in the medical and the physical. Psych is about 700 questions and they put in 90 a class. A class just went in and they're getting ready for people to make the jump to fire or pd so they've been putting classes in left and right. Academy is about 2-3 months and you can bet they will put another class in right away following that one cause rumor is fire will put a class in early next year and pd will put a other class in probably around the same time once their class in graduates. If your at a good station you can do mutuals and work a second job but don't expect OT cause there isn't any unless someone' bangs out or it's summer

[mtnmedic 36]

OT comes in waves. They've been a lot better at keeping us at or above headcount in the last year, and so it's definitely gone down, but for those that are willing to hustle/travel it's definitely out there. I've only been formally mandated once in the last year, which is pretty damn good compared to what it was like a few years ago when I got on. If the rumors are true then they are going to burn through the EMT list as they prepare for and try to keep up with the displacement into Fire/PD, not to mention the fact that the city went on a major hiring binge in the late 80s and all of those people have been or are going to hit 25 years over the next few years.

Regardless, sit tight and wait, keep yourself in some sort of decent shape (the physical is a joke but if you're overweight the docs at HQ will tell you to lose weight or shove it), don't develop a drug habit, and if you work at any of the voluntary hospitals then behave yourself (I've heard NOIs can affect whether or not they choose to hire you).

edit: My experience with OT is as a medic, which is slightly different from BLS. Since they have way more applicants that are EMTs, and it's much quicker to train EMTs, they've held BLS OT pretty low for the past 2-3 years, since they can have 90 new EMTs in 3 months if they want. ALS is different because they historically get less medics applying from the outside, and it takes a whole lot longer to train them on the inside. That said, doubling how many medics they hire from the outside/train on the inside each year has certainly changed that. Which is a good thing for you since the more EMTs they pull off the streets to make medics the more EMTs they will be hiring.

Edited August 5, 2012 by mtnmedic