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Recruits: Paramedics (2011)

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Country
Australia

How it feels

This series follows people training to become paramedics in Australia. It shows their classroom lessons and their first emergency calls on the job.

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What happens

Recruits: Paramedics is an Australian factual television program that premiered on Network Ten on 6 October 2011. It follows the work lives of new recruit paramedics in Australia, showing some of the content of their 8-week preliminary theory course, as well as clips from their first shifts on the front line. To date, 13 episodes have aired. Recruits Paramedics follows the journey of everyday people setting out to achieve a lifelong ambition to become a paramedic. Offering unique insights into the high pressure world of paramedics, we are taken into the everyday lives of new recruits as they transform their overpowering motivation to save lives into reality. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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