EMS Newbie Essay Contest

Anyhoo, y'all bookmark Probie to Practitioner as one of your daily reads, and head on over to welcome MK to the EMS blogosphere. The kid's got talent, and passion aplenty. The former can make her a good EMT, and the latter can make her a great one. If she can sustain it.

Well, after a week in Las Vegas, I fly home early this afternoon. Kilted. I've already decided to opt out of the Porn O' Scan, and will request the enhanced patdown instead. I figure if they're going to invade my privacy, they should have to earn their money by groping a fat guy in a kilt. EMS World Expo was ...

For you EMS types attending EMS World Expo in Las Vegas, here's where I'll be. Tuesday, August 30: The Zoll EMS/Fire Blogger Bash at Las Vegas Hard Rock Cafe, starting at 8:30. Wednesday, August 31: Confessions of an EMS Newbie with Ron Davis at 3:30 from the Promed Podcast Studio in the exhibit hall. We'll have our EMS Newbie Essay ...

The winner of the EMS Newbie Essay Contest is Mary Caitlin Kelly. Congratulations on a fine essay, and we look forward to having you on the show in Las Vegas!

Congratulations, Daniel, on a fine essay, and we hope to see you at EMS World Expo!

Since the final three essays in our EMS Newbie Essay Contest were soooo close, EMS World magazine has graciously offered to provide free conference registration not only for our 1st place winner, but for 2nd and 3rd place as well! Thank you, EMS World, for your sponsorship, and for allowing another couple of newbies the chance to attend! Hopefully, our ...

Congratulations to all our finalists, and to Jennifer Martin on her 3rd place essay!

… still to be determined. Well, folks, after 53 essays, 15 preliminary judges in 5 teams, and 11 finalists judged by 3 final judges, we have arrived at our nightmare scenario: We have a three-way tie for first place. Fortunately, Ron and I planned for a nightmare scenario. Those three essays are now in the hands of our tiebreaker judges, ...

Well folks, preliminary judging for the EMS Newbie EMS World Expo Essay Contest is completed! We had 53 essays submitted, and of those, our esteemed panel of judges narrowed them down to 11 finalists. There were supposed to be only 10, but the judges in one group rated two essays as equally awesome, so we made them both finalists. Right ...

... because the submission deadline on the EMS Newbie Essay Contest clearly states midnight on June 1. That gives you 24 more hours to get your submissions in. And since this has come up by some readers who missed the original announcement, the contest was opened to U.S. and Canadian residents shortly after we started accepting submissions.

... and the newbie nodded fervently, head bowed, and said, "I know! I'm praying! Pleeeeease let me win that essay contest!" ... and the voice, which may have been FSM but sounded suspiciously like Ambulance Driver, said impatiently, "Dude, at least meet me half way. Write a friggin' essay!"

Get to writing, and hopefully we'll see y'all in Vegas, baby!

It's Confessions of an EMS Newbie, the only podcast Grissom listens to for technical tips. If it's good enough for CSI, shouldn't it be good enough for you?

If you're an EMS newbie, or if you know an EMS newbie, or you know someone who knows someone who is an EMS newbie, submit your essays to win an all-expenses-paid trip to EMS World Expo 2011 in Las Vegas!

The contest runs from May 1 through June 1, and essays will be judged by a panel of celebrity EMS bloggers, educators and publishers. In addition to the trip to EMS World Expo, our first place winner also gets a 1-year subscription to EMS World magazine, and an appearance on one of the live Confessions of an EMS Newbie podcasts from the Promed Network podcast studio in Las Vegas.