Emergency Services - Case Studies

Rank on Exit: Combat Medic

Years of Service: 22

Qualifications Gained: Trauma experience

 

Private Steven Hill plans to leave the Royal Army Medical Corps in November at the end of his four year engagement. The 22-year-old Class 1 and 2 Combat Medic has served in Germany, Iraq, Belize, Kuwait and Kenya, gaining ‘clinical skills and trauma experience in the field and in medical centres.’ Planning to develop his skills in the public sector he would like to become a paramedic.

 

He has already undertaken training with Thames Ambulance Training Services on what he describes as a ‘very well run and professional course’, that he hopes will prepare him for the next phase of his professional life. As a paramedic he hopes to be involved with the ‘treatment and transportation of often critically ill or injured patients to hospital or definitive treatment centres’.

 

Whilst Hill is looking forward to continuing to practise the skills he has developed in the Army, he will be able to do so outside armed conflict and deal with elderly patients as well as comparatively young ones. He expects the pace of his work ‘to slow down so there will be more time to consider clinical decisions.’ He also anticipates a higher salary than he would be able to command in the military medical services.