My cat's an idiot should I take him to the vet?

I love my cat, I really do, he's a sweetie. Whenever i'm sick he lays with me, never leaves my side. But there are times were I wonder if he doesn't have some kind of feline mental retardation. Today I was cooking some hamburger meat on the stove, the meat was finished and I turned the stove all the way to high (electric burner high) to melt some cheese on top, I turned for a few seconds to make sure my toddler wasn't in the kitchen when I hear the most horrible blood curtailing scream (it really did sound like a woman) it was my cat, he jumped on the stove (first time he ever did this) knocked the pan of food to the floor and landed on the read hot burner for about a second before he jumped and hit his head on the exhaust fan and fell to the floor. I looked at his paw and the hair around it is burned and there looks to be a 2nd degree burn on the bottom of his front right paw and 1st degree burns on his two back feet. I'm not sure if I should take him into the vet, he's a in door cat so I don't think he will need to worry about contamination, I put a little aloe and a bandage on his feet and I put his kitty slippers on him (cute little suede shoes for cats), but I don't know if I should take him to the vet , what do you think?