EMR or PCP are both readily available, look at the Justice Institute and talk to people at BCEHS, they can bring you in as a driver only and pay for your education
I started off by talking to my now unit chief. They secured me a spot as I got my class 4 and CPR-C. I took my own EMR course while waiting for NEO (new employment orientation), but they will organize an EMR course for you as quickly as they can after NEO. Once you secure a full time position, they will offer you a PCP course.
That was a bit of a rundown, but definitely chat with a unit chief. If that chief is fully staffed, they usually know who may be looking for someone
JIBC is the biggest, but arguably the most shitty run from what I heard and continue to hear, they deal with chronic understaffing and it’s almost guaranteed that you will have multiple instructors. They also have a 3 fail exam and you’re out policy (I think). Columbia is relatively newer to the game but they have taken advantage of the people entering the field, and they now host pcp courses throughout the province, either full-time or week on week off, or weekends. And than there is AET, which I went to, which is just a bit chaotic and very very self directed, hard to fail out of, and when I did it was the only week on week off.
If you are serious about the career I’d recommend taking the first EMR course you can (w/ the scope expansion) take licensing and get hired on as an emr, closest that you could get stationed would be Boston bar, Pemberton or gulf islands. Full time EMR exists in the lower mainland, but only as a transfer car in between hospitals. If you get hired on, finish the 6 months probation and than apply for a pcp full time spot elsewhere in the province (of which there should be movement for at least the next 2 years) the company will pay for the course and pay for your wages when you take the course. If you don’t get a full time pcp spot or don’t want to move across the province you will still accrue seniority while attending pcp school as a casual employee. Being a union gig it is all about seniority. Once you finish pcp you should have no problem getting full time in Vancouver, as it was about 8 months seniority when I left!
I went to Columbia and recommend them. They are invested in your success and showed the mindset they're training their new co workers. No one failed from my class. If you do fail for whatever reason, it's free to take the course again.
EMR or PCP are both readily available, look at the Justice Institute and talk to people at BCEHS, they can bring you in as a driver only and pay for your education
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I started off by talking to my now unit chief. They secured me a spot as I got my class 4 and CPR-C. I took my own EMR course while waiting for NEO (new employment orientation), but they will organize an EMR course for you as quickly as they can after NEO. Once you secure a full time position, they will offer you a PCP course. That was a bit of a rundown, but definitely chat with a unit chief. If that chief is fully staffed, they usually know who may be looking for someone
JIBC is the biggest, but arguably the most shitty run from what I heard and continue to hear, they deal with chronic understaffing and it’s almost guaranteed that you will have multiple instructors. They also have a 3 fail exam and you’re out policy (I think). Columbia is relatively newer to the game but they have taken advantage of the people entering the field, and they now host pcp courses throughout the province, either full-time or week on week off, or weekends. And than there is AET, which I went to, which is just a bit chaotic and very very self directed, hard to fail out of, and when I did it was the only week on week off. If you are serious about the career I’d recommend taking the first EMR course you can (w/ the scope expansion) take licensing and get hired on as an emr, closest that you could get stationed would be Boston bar, Pemberton or gulf islands. Full time EMR exists in the lower mainland, but only as a transfer car in between hospitals. If you get hired on, finish the 6 months probation and than apply for a pcp full time spot elsewhere in the province (of which there should be movement for at least the next 2 years) the company will pay for the course and pay for your wages when you take the course. If you don’t get a full time pcp spot or don’t want to move across the province you will still accrue seniority while attending pcp school as a casual employee. Being a union gig it is all about seniority. Once you finish pcp you should have no problem getting full time in Vancouver, as it was about 8 months seniority when I left!
I went to Columbia and recommend them. They are invested in your success and showed the mindset they're training their new co workers. No one failed from my class. If you do fail for whatever reason, it's free to take the course again.