Think medical school is hard? Try finishing it while youre working as a paramedic [Video]

Out of the ambulance and into the hospital.

It’s a journey undertaken daily by thousands of patients in B.C.’s health-care system. It’s also the incredible path taken by two of the province’s newest doctors.

Marco Law and Peter Nguyen both graduated from medical school in May, earning their MDs.

Somehow, both of them managed to pull off that already difficult task while working as paramedics in the B.C. Ambulance Service.

“It was a lot easier than people would expect,” said Nguyen, who starts a residency in anesthesiology in Victoria next month.

“I found that when I was in medical school the first two years is pretty clinical so we would learn a lot from our lectures and slides … but working as a paramedic gave me context for what we were learning in class, so it was almost like learning while on the job as well.”

Law, who already has a master’s degree in biomedical engineering, said that …