Every minute counts in emergency healthcare. You need a cool head and the ability to work under pressure; it’s challenging, rewarding and fast-paced. This degree course provides the training you need to be eligible to register as a paramedic when you graduate.
Our exciting paramedic science degree course will teach you the skills you need to work as a paramedic. You'll get practical experience by using our modern skills laboratories, mannequins and specialist equipment, and back it up with the theory you learn in the lecture theatre. Then you'll apply both theory and practice on your clinical placements with local ambulance trusts. You'll be placed with either East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust or London Ambulance Service NHS Trust. As well as your ambulance placement you'll also experience other types of placement including primary care and acute care.
You'll get expert guidance from supportive tutors, including practising professionals. By studying and working alongside nursing and operating department practice students, you'll learn to work as a multidisciplinary team, reflecting the real-life working environment.
After graduation and registration, you could work in a wide range of out-of-hospital care settings, including an ambulance or response car, the control room, an air ambulance (HEMS) team, or a hazardous area response team. Increasingly, paramedics are also helping to deliver acute care in hospitals and private healthcare, such as at concerts or motor-racing events.
Our paramedic science course was designed with the East of England Ambulance Trust in partnership with Health Education East of England. It's approved by the Health & Care Professions Council, so you'll be able to register and work as a paramedic as soon as you graduate.
We're dedicated to the continual improvement of every aspect of healthcare and delivering the values set out in the NHS Constitution.
Course Details - Modules
Year one, core modules
Preparation for Clinical Practice in Emergency Care
Patient Assessment and Management 1 (Theory)
Patient Assessment and Management 1 (Practice)
Research and Study Skills
Year two, core modules
Professional Role of the Paramedic
Applied Anatomy and Physiology
Pharmacology for Healthcare Practice
Patient Assessment and Management 2
Clinical Practice in Paramedic Science I
Year three, core modules
Research Methodology, Design and Process
Patient Assessment and Management 3
Leadership and Management Skills in Health and Social Care Practice
Major Project Paramedic BSc
Clinical Practice in Paramedic Science II
Course Details – Assessment Method
We'll assess you regularly so that you and your tutors can check your progress. Besides exams, we'll look at your placement assessment records, essays, presentations, observed clinical examinations, case studies and your major project. In order to successfully complete the course and be eligible to apply for registration, you must achieve a pass in all modules.
This is a three-year programme
Please note that you'll need to pass all of the above core modules in order to be eligible to register with the HCPC. This course does not have any optional modules. Modules are subject to change and availability.
Course Details – Professional Bodies
Professional Bodies are not listed for this Course.
How to Apply
26 January This is the deadline for applications to be completed and sent for this course. If the university or college still has places available you can apply after this date, but your application is not guaranteed to be considered.
Application Codes
Course code:
B780
Institution code:
A60
Campus Name:
Cambridge Campus
Campus code:
Points of Entry
The following entry points are available for this course:
Year 1
Entry Requirements for Advanced Entry (Year 2 and Beyond)
Entry Requirements for Advanced Entry are not listed for this Course.
International applicants
Standard Qualification Requirements
112 UCAS Tariff points from a minimum of 2 A Levels (or equivalent), including Science (Biology preferred).
UCAS Tariff points from a minimum of 2 A Levels (or equivalent), including Science (Biology preferred).
112 UCAS Tariff points from Scottish Advanced Highers are accepted, related subjects are required.
112 UCAS Tariff points from Scottish Highers are accepted, related subjects are required.
112 Points from Science or Health based courses
112 UCAS Tariff points acquired from BTEC Level 3 Diplomas are accepted, related subjects are preferred, a minimum of 60 guided learning hours must come from a Science unit.
If English is not your first language you will be expected to demonstrate a certificated level of proficiency of at least IELTS 7.0 ( Academic level), or equivalent English Language qualification, as recognised by Anglia Ruskin University.
2020 Entry requirements are under review for the next cycle and have been published using the current cycle information. Please check back when apply opens for the exact requirements.
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