Workforce emergency: Ambulance company to offer paid EMT training in Worcester

WORCESTER – Amid a national shortage of emergency medical technicians, the region’s leading private ambulance service announced Wednesday it will pay 25 residents to train for 12 weeks as full-time EMTs, and pay their test-taking fees.Through a program called Earn While You Learn, the selected applicants will be hired to attend a full-time EMT training program, through which the trainee will have an opportunity to become certified at the state level, then work on an ambulance […]