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Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 1:59 pm
by eswife
rescue10 wrote:Yer they do have bronze and gold.Its just the gradeing system.

Silver and Gold are National levels with gold level also being able to work at international motopr sports events
So what skills can a silver paramedic do compared to a gold????

Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 3:23 pm
by Markmywords
Is this rating based on qualifcations that the "paramedic" holds or something that you have to do through CAMS to get the star rating.

Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 5:25 pm
by donks
rescue10 wrote:prob have seen ya.besides my photography I hold a Gold CAMS Fire Rescue Licence and a Silver CAMS Paramedic Licence
nice one. Do CAMS run special courses or something like that?

Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2007 7:02 am
by trekker
donks wrote:
rescue10 wrote:prob have seen ya.besides my photography I hold a Gold CAMS Fire Rescue Licence and a Silver CAMS Paramedic Licence
nice one. Do CAMS run special courses or something like that?
Back when I was naive enough to think that you needed a CAMS 'paramedic' license to do events at the track, the grading system was mainly based on what you wrote on the application form, so the better you were at selling yourself on the form the higher your rating....

Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2007 7:55 am
by rescue10
It is a requirement from CAMS that all Paramedics/Officials are licenced to cover them for insurance.

No its never been how you can sell your self.You have had to supply letters of refrence and copies of certificates of Qualification ie I have to provide a Letter from the CEO of St Johns and provide my NSW Air Wing training Course Certificate and my certificate from Care Flight.

Any way you were only from St Jonhs Wanneroos First Aid service and non of their members applied for the licence hence St.Johns got the boot

Posted: Mon Dec 24, 2007 6:49 pm
by ST_DOC
Rescue10 i would be interested in knowing what training you completed for the NSW airwing and what you recieved from care flight? Im interested as im an ex US flight critical care paramedic.

Posted: Mon Dec 24, 2007 10:54 pm
by Chicky
I don't mean to be a stick in the mud... BUT this topic is about first jobs.... not about qualifications? It's just I keep looking at this topic hoping to see some more shared stories, but am only getting discussion on who/where/what to get the title, etc. Or am I missing something? :?

Posted: Mon Dec 24, 2007 11:14 pm
by Markmywords
Kudos chicky...i can remember my last job in w.a day dreaming and running the ambulance (82) into the back off a car sitting at a red light on hampton rd-resulted in 1 off to hospital

Posted: Mon Dec 24, 2007 11:21 pm
by elm
Ooh, doesn't sound too good. Was that the reason it was your last job in WA?

Posted: Tue Dec 25, 2007 8:49 am
by Markmywords
I was doing like 10ks an hour if that so wasnt nothing big

Posted: Tue Dec 25, 2007 5:32 pm
by Tyranus
Markmywords wrote:Kudos chicky...i can remember my last job in w.a day dreaming and running the ambulance (82) into the back off a car sitting at a red light on hampton rd-resulted in 1 off to hospital
Don't you hate it when you go to run the red light but the person in front of you doesn't?

Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 4:48 pm
by Ambul8
Markmywords wrote:Kudos chicky...i can remember my last job in w.a day dreaming and running the ambulance (82) into the back off a car sitting at a red light on hampton rd-resulted in 1 off to hospital
A banged up 82 - i reckon i no who u r :P

If so, a long time ago, we went P1 to look at a rental house!!

Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 1:42 pm
by Markmywords
Ambul8 wrote: A banged up 82 - i reckon i no who u r :P

If so, a long time ago, we went P1 to look at a rental house!!
:lol:

Oh gees um i think you could be one off two people.

1) Do you or did you have a pilots license ?
or

2) Did you ever go to NT at all ?

Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 2:30 pm
by Ambul8
Markmywords wrote:
Ambul8 wrote: A banged up 82 - i reckon i no who u r :P

If so, a long time ago, we went P1 to look at a rental house!!
:lol:

Oh gees um i think you could be one off two people.

1) Do you or did you have a pilots license ?
or

2) Did you ever go to NT at all ?
a pilots license? nah i CHOPPED the wood, twas my offsider who pilot....lol

I knew someone who went to NT, well 2 of em from the same depot. likely related.

R U V R

Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 3:14 pm
by Markmywords
Ok well im not VR but we know each other.

Where you down mandurah 1994 onwards to about 1997 or in that era