<p>Do an EMT-B only if you want to do it for your own sake. Don’t do it to impress the adcoms. EMT-Bs are a dime a dozen on med school applications. </p>
<p>And 100 hours isn’t “extensive”. 1000 hours is extensive. (D2 had 1000+ clinical hours at graduation; she’ll have close to 3 times that when she applies to med school next year.)</p>
<p>RE: does it count? Some of it will. </p>
<p>Training–doesn’t count. Practicing your skills on your fellow students–doesn’t count. On call time/waiting around for something to happen–doesn’t count. Dealing with an actual patient/being on a call out—that counts.</p>