Pros-patient, fun, and knowledagable staff that ne...

Pros-patient, fun, and knowledagable staff that never lead a boring class; honorable mentions: Jason, Michele, Peter, and Cosmo. The 50 Sheffield Avenue facility is clean, well-lit, and comfortable in all kinds of weather.

Con-The tremendous amount of reading assigned between each class can become overwhelming. Once you fall behind on the reading, it is extremely difficult to catch up and even more difficult to carefully and thoroughly review the reading material. Struggling to complete and review the reading assignments would be understandable if most of the reading material featured in the final exam, but my final exam did not test me on a lot of the reading material that I spent entire nights awake to try to complete, which, needless to say, is incredibly frustrating, especially because that time and effort would have been better spent reading and reviewing material that prominently featured in the final exam, which possibly would have improved my final exam score. Although instructors cannot be reasonably expected to accurately predict exactly what will be tested on the final exam, if the instructors could somehow decrease the reading workload to focus more on the subjects and topics that typically prominently feature in the final exam, students who would otherwise possibly struggle to catch up to or stay up to date with the reading assignments wouldn't have to struggle as much or at all and would have more time and energy to review and study more often. In short, the EMT training program can benefit from "trimming the fat" off its total reading workload.

-Carlos Torres