National College Of Technical Instruction

I attended an EMT program from an off-site location. I really liked my class, that is until they fired our instructor in the middle of the program.

Not only did NCTI screw-over our instructor, but AMR denied all our ride time. We thought we had lost everything. Lucky for us, our instructor was hired by another training institution and we were all allowed to continue our program through them.

Our instructor cared more about us getting a good education than the greedy college that cared more about our money. Our ride-time was done with an AMR competitor.

went to the NCTI in portland and it was a total joke. Save your money and go to a community college.

So if you have never been to that school then don't comment.

I just finished clinicals and I've started to grow a beard until my field internship starts. I'm sure I will look like tom hanks from the movie Cast Away!

My opinion.....

NCTI is incompetent at best.

M Ruston Fire Captain/Paramedic

I am a national reg. paramedic that graduated from NCTI riverside campus.

You definitely get what you put into the program. Be prepared to find your own preceptor and play the game. The school cost a lot, but the training was good. Worth 10K?

No! Try to go to any other school and if you have to then go to NCTI. Also, their units do not transfer to Crafton or RCC.

There is only one school up north and they require you to attend over 12 units before they let your units transfer.

How is it nctis fault that there aren't a lot of preceptors or that your call volume was lacking? Should they have sent instructors out with baseball bats to make you some patients?

NCTI Bay Area/Livermore is no different. I solicited my own clincal and field internship preceptors because I was not willing to wait in line behind multiple students from multiple programs which I knew would take upwards of 6 months.

It still took the program administrators months to finish the necessary paperwork for me to start them. No one in the office answers the phone and good luck getting a return phone call or email. It will not happen. In the past couple years they have fired and re-hired nearly their entire staff and nobody has the experience to run the program effectively and the students are taking the hit while they collect the outrageous tuition.

I'm not sure what it's paying for but it is definately not program improvment. My field internship agency is no longer accepting interns from their programs because they are tired of dealing with thier administrators!

If you are in the Dallas area, dont waste your time. This program is an absolute joke.

First off they fire the course coordinator/lead instructor a week before my class began, a week into class they then fired the administrative person.

They have lost several checks for tuition. i have contacted several people but no body in the corporate office has a clue what the other is doing.

Ncti was the worst school I have ever attended. I was dismissed from

The program after completing my internship because my preceptor didn't sign me off.

I had no support from the school which claim to e student advocates!

I think there should be a class action suite against NCTI and the Milwaukie Oregon program. Anyone on board contact me.

I graduated from NCTI Paramedic class 13 at the riverside campus. I will be the first one to tell you that the school has problems but not unlike anyother program... You get out of things what u put into them. If you study u pass...! Plain and simple, just because u pay a lot of money doesn't mean you pass and it certainly doesn't mean you are entitled to special treatment... I was an average student and I worked hard for that. It took forever for me to get into my clinicals...why??? Because I had to wait on openings...openings that were taken up by students who felt entitled. Students who thought it was ok to just do 1 or 2 shifts a week because they already finished the classroom portion. When it was my turn I did 5 shifts a week and finished up and moved on making room for the next guy. The same was true of my internship, unlike 90% of my class that would only do their time at a fire agency within 20 mins of where they live, I made the choice that my future was worth a drive and choose to drive 3+ hours one way to my internship. Then while there I did everything I could to make sure I performed at a paramedic level and completed my shifts at 20, the minimun required, again I moved on and made room for the next student who cared enough about his future to make the sacrifices.

I went on to complete my national registry and went to work as a Paramedic, now I'm about to take my examinatin to be certified as a flight paramedic.

Say what u want about NCTI but at the end of the day failure is no ones fault but your own...

,Mike