PrepMD Welcomes Third Session of Students

PrepMD, a leading post graduate training and placement service in the medical device field, announced the induction of its third session of trainees. There are 18 new participants in the program who will complete a six-month course of study designed to prepare them for careers as Cardiac Rhythm Management device specialists. Graduates will exit the program job-ready and prior to graduation all students will begin interviewing with major medical device companies and potentially earn an average of $100,000. “We are thrilled to welcome our third group of trainees to PrepMD. Our value proposition is based upon reducing training costs while increasing productivity for device manufacturers,” said Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Matt O’Neal. “PrepMD gives trainees the added benefit of career counseling and placement and we have placed over 85 percent of our graduates in the top companies in the medical device and healthcare industries.” PrepMD, following its inaugural program, has already placed over 20 trainees in careers in the CRM field at the largest medical device manufacturers in the industry such as SorinGroup, Biotronik, Boston Scientific, Medtronic and St. Jude Medical. This revolutionary business model is beneficial to both employers as well as graduates providing a more efficient and cost effective way of training medical device specialists. PrepMD graduates can be employed in positions within the industry or within hospital-based settings and private healthcare practices. The training students receive includes approximately 1,000 hours of classroom instruction at PrepMD’s Braintree, Mass. campus on a range of topics including: cardiac anatomy and physiology, conduction system, EKG interpretation, programming, and troubleshooting of implantable pacemakers and defibrillators. The classroom instruction is complemented with hands on work at PrepMD’s simulation labs designed to replicate actual procedure and clinic rooms. After completing classroom instruction, students complete PrepMD’s 13-week clinical rotation program in major medical centers around the greater Boston area. At PrepMD’s most recent graduation, Bob Schriever, President of the Sudden Cardiac Arrest Awareness Association, told students that they were preparing for “the best job in the world.” After recounting his own personal survival from Sudden Cardiac Arrest, he told PrepMD students, “You save lives… more fathers, mothers, sisters, aunts and uncles are alive today because of the job you have been preparing to do.” The newest class of PrepMD trainees includes students from Texas, Florida, the Carolinas and the MidWest with experience in life sciences, EMT, Business to Business sales as well as finance. The students are drawn from professional backgrounds that hiring managers in the medical device industry consider as high value attributes when they select candidates for their open positions. About PrepMD PrepMD LLC (www.prepmd.org) is a post graduate training and placement service focused on delivering curriculum and educational support, specifically designed to prepare students for furthering careers in the medical device and healthcare industries. Founded by former professionals in the medical device field with more than 60 years total experience, PrepMD enrolls qualified applicants into a six-month program that gives them the training and skills required for high paying jobs with medical device manufacturers. PrepMD also serves as a career counseling and placement program where graduates move on to positions earning on average $100,000 and more. Currently, PrepMD dedicates its educational resources to a course of study addressing the Cardiac Rhythm Management and Cardiac Electrophysiology sectors of the healthcare industry. This course of study is conducted within a state-of-the-art training facility in Braintree, Mass. and within observational sessions conducted among major medical centers throughout the Boston area.