The majority of us will know if a particular academic path is for us long before we get to the clinical portion. Overcoming the academic challenges are the hurdles that keep us up late nights. Doing the job s muscle memory. My path went a little like this. Academics were those things necessary to propell me to the hands-on section. All of which was required to graduate. My first day on an ambulance, I reported to the scene of a tracheotomy patient in respiratory distress. That was the only time I was noticeably flustered.
