EMS Newbies: Start Your Word Processors!

The Confessions of an EMS Newbie EMS World Expo Essay Contest is open!

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!

Here's your topic:

EMS and the Social Media Revolution: How has blogging, Twitter, Facebook and podcasting affected your EMS experience, and how do you see it shaping you in the future? As an EMT student or newbie, has social media changed the way you study or learn, or the way you approach your profession? Has social media been a positive influence, or a negative one?

The rules are simple:

1. Contest limited to newbies. Submission limited to EMT students or less than 2 years experience, verified by either their instructor or copy of card/certificate with original date of certification.

2. 400-600 words, double spaced, 1 inch margins, 12 pt font, MS Word or PDF format.

3. Submissions accepted from May 1 through midnight on June 1, submitted on the EMS Newbie website.

The prizes are suhweet!

1st Place: All expenses trip to EMS World Expo in Las Vegas. A 3-day conference registration and three show events (provided by EMS World), and a shift shadowing Dr Bryan Bledsoe at University Medical Center ED. Airfare supplied by Emergency Training Associates, and lodging supplied by Cielo Azul Publishing. The winner also gets a 1-year subscription to EMS World Magazine, and appears on one of our live webcasts from the Promed Network podcasting studio.

2nd Place: 1-year subscription to EMS World Magazine and fully stocked first responder BLS trauma bag. A customized Confessions of an EMS Newbie case for your iPhone, or other smartphone. A signed copy of En Route: A Paramedic’s Stories of Life, Death, and Everything in Between by Kelly Grayson.

3rd Place: 1-year subscription to EMS World and fully stocked first responder BLS trauma bag. A signed copy of En Route: A Paramedic’s Stories of Life, Death, and Everything in Between by Kelly Grayson.

EMS bloggers, readers and podcasters, help us out by promoting the contest with one of our audio promos or a blog banner from our contest promotion page!

So fire up those word processors, put on your thinking caps, and get us your essays!