ARTICLES Examining Career Success of Minority and Women Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs): A LEADS Project Darlene F. Russ-Eft, Philip D. Dickison, Roger Levine Emergency medical technicians (EMTs) are a critical segment in prehospital medical care. This study examined EMT-paramedic career success focused on minorities and women, as part of the Longitudinal Emergency Medical Technician Attributes and Demographics Study (LEADS). The LEADS data come from a representative sampling of EMTs throughout the United States. Analyses examined factors related to objective and subjective career success and did so with samples from 2000 and 2004. Regression results showed that education, experience, and hours worked predicted objective career success. In contrast, satisfaction with others and with supervisor predicted subjective career success. Minority status was not related to either objective or subjective career success, while gender appeared to have a negative influence on objective career success but was unrelated to subjective career success. Implications for HRD practitioners and researchers are discussed. Emergency medical technicians (EMTs) are a critical segment in prehospital medical care and emergency medical services (EMS). In the United States in particular, there are at least 17,000 ambulance services, approximately 815,000 EMTs, and more than 122 million annual emergency room visits (American HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT QUARTERLY, vol. 19, no. 4, Winter 2008 © Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com) • DOI: 10.1002/hrdq.1242 281 The authors thank the many National Registered EMT-basics and EMT-paramedics who have participated in the LEADS project; their efforts will improve prehospital care in the United States. Furthermore, we want to acknowledge both the National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians (NREMT) and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) for their support of this work. Nevertheless, the contents of this manuscript are the responsibility of the authors and not of NREMT or NHTSA.