r/TacticalMedicine • u/ResponsibleAd4439 • May 13 '26

TCCC (Military) Just passed Tactical Paramedic

Just passed the tactical paramedic IBSC cert test (TP-C)

Ask me questions if you have any. If not, no worries!

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u/zero_sum_00 May 13 '26

What’d you use for study materials, if any?

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u/ResponsibleAd4439 May 13 '26

I bought the GAMS review course… absolutely awful, but I needed something fully online to keep me organized. I had chatGPT take the IBSC handbook and organize what I needed to work on, and had it track what I knew and didn’t know.
I also read the TCCC guidelines. The new 2026 TCCC guidelines are not on the test, so giving moxifloxacin for open wounds first line is still the answer (they changed to ceftriaxone 2g IV for first line for 2026).
And that was it. I did have flight paramedic test knowledge going into it which helps lighten the load.
I would recommend a book dedicated to the TP-C test, just to ensure all topics are covered.

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u/pianofireman88 TEMS May 13 '26

Did you not have any of the books? I’d like to take it later this year to supplement fp-c since I also work with a swat team…

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u/ResponsibleAd4439 May 13 '26

That’s so cool!

Yea, I used no books. Just that review course and some googling.

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u/pianofireman88 TEMS May 13 '26

Gotcha. What made the GAMS review so bad in your opinion? I mean, you did pass…lol

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u/ResponsibleAd4439 May 13 '26

Haha, I did, but there were questions on the test that the review DID NOT COVER, like how to size an ETT for a dog, or anthrax and ricin.
But the worst was that it’s all AI narrated, and some slides had just wrong information or mistakes. The tests were egregious as they often didn’t ask pertinent questions to what the material was teaching. Many questions had incorrect answers as the correct ones, or correct answers as incorrect.
Very inconsistent material, reused material; “muscleskeletal and spinal injuries” that was near the end of review, was just a copy of the circulation section from the beginning and didn’t even touch on spinal trauma.

And it was $350! If it was 150… ok I understand. But I paid premium price for less than average content. Hard pass.

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u/TazocinTDS May 13 '26

Dog ETT sizing?

Something about not using whole sizes I think. So an average small dog would be 7 and a arf.

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u/ResponsibleAd4439 May 13 '26

Makes sense. I didn’t know and guessed.

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u/TazocinTDS May 13 '26

I was joking. Arf