Please note that the information provided relates to the current academic year and is subject to change without notice by Sheffield Hallam University.
Please check the Sheffield Hallam University website for the latest information.
**Course summary**
- Combine theory and practice to meet the modern day challenges of integrated patient care.
- Learn to assess, stabilise, treat and manage patients at the scene of an accident or emergency.
- Meet the future healthcare agenda through digital competence.
- Study an integrated healthcare curriculum — learning with, from and about other healthcare professionals.
- Apply for registration with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).
Paramedics work in a variety of settings and deal with all aspects of emergency, urgent and social care. On this course, you’ll learn how to respond to a variety of conditions. When you graduate, you’ll have the skills and knowledge you need to enter this challenging but rewarding profession.
**How you learn**
All our courses are designed around a set of key principles based on engaging you with the world, collaborating with others, challenging you to think in new ways, and providing you with a supportive environment in which you can thrive.
Throughout the course, you’ll collaborate with students from other disciplines. This allows you you will learn with, from and about wider areas of healthcare that are relevant to your future profession.
This enhances your employability skills, helps you to be challenged and develop in your chosen profession. These experiences will help you to transform the lives of individuals and communities, working in collaboration to solve real-world problems.
You will study at Collegiate Campus whilst undertaking academic modules and in a variety of service provider locations on placement.
You learn through
- lectures
- self-directed study
- practical sessions
- simulation
- group exercises
- practice placement
- interprofessional collaboration
**Applied learning**
Theory will prepare you for practice learning experiences are designed to help you not only to apply theory to practice, but to develop critical and ethical approaches to your practice in order to become life-long, competent professionals. You are required to attend the practice learning experiences provided on the course to achieve the course practice learning outcomes.
You’ll undertake a range of practice learning experiences, helping you to build your skills, confidence, creativity, resilience, integrity and curiosity. This will take place in different practice learning environments, reflecting the range of ways in which services are currently delivered. This might include simulated learning and virtual placements alongside real world experience of services delivered face to face to service users.
The university will ensure that the practice learning element of your course will be compliant with the requirements of the Professional and Statutory Regulatory Body (PSRB) governing your chosen profession. This is so that by the end of your course, you will have been provided with the opportunity to demonstrate attainment of the requirements to register as a professional with your chosen profession.
Course Details - Modules
Module and assessment information for future years is displayed as currently validated and may be liable to change. When selecting electives, your choices will be subject to the core requirements of the course. As a result, selections may be limited to a choice between one of two or more specified electives in some instances.
Year 1
Compulsory modules
Applied Anatomy And Physiology 20
Applied Pathophysiology 20
Clinical Placement, Theory And Practice 1A 20
Clinical Placement, Theory And Practice 1B 20
Collaboration For Individual And Community Wellbeing 20
Personal And Professional Development 20
Year 2
Compulsory modules
Assessing And Addressing Complexity 40
Clinical Placement, Theory And Practice 2A 20
Clinical Placement, Theory And Practice 2B 20
Evidence And Enquiry For Practice 20
Pharmacology For Practice 20
Final year
Module Credits
Clinical Placement Theory And Practice 3 20
Paediatric And Obstetric Practice 20
Professional Leadership 20
The Advancing Professional 40
Working With Complexity In Practice 20
Course Details – Assessment Method
Coursework
Practical
Course Details – Professional Bodies
Health and Care Professions Council
Paramedics, College of
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:
S21
Campus Name:
Main Site
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
From A levels which must include at least 32 points from either a natural science subject, such as Biology, Chemistry or Physics, or equivalent BTEC National qualifications which includes natural modules. We do not accept AS levels or general studies.
For example:
•ABB at A Level including relevant subject(s)
•DDM in BTEC Extended Diploma
•A combination of qualifications including relevant subject(s)
Access to HE Diploma from a QAA recognised Access to HE course in health studies, health science, nursing or another science-based course. Normally we require 15 of the level 3 credits to be graded at distinction with 9 of these distinctions from natural science units.
If you are in the process of completing the FdSc Professional Practice in Health and Social Care at one of our partner colleges and are looking to progress your career as a registered professional, we would welcome an application from you. Please note the different application routes below:
Completing the level 4 Certificate of Higher Education in Professional Practice in Health and Social Care means you can apply via UCAS to be considered for entry at Year 1 of your chosen professional degree
Completing the full two year FdSc to level 5 means you can apply to be considered for entry in to Year 2 of this professional degree. This is a direct application process in accordance with the partnership arrangement between Sheffield Hallam University and your college, not via UCAS. Please note that places to commence this course in Year 2 are limited.
Other equivalent qualifications are considered individually, and include previous degrees that are grade 2.2 or above.
Please note the University will only admit students who are aged 18 or over at the point of enrolment.
Please click the following link to find out more about qualification requirements for this course
Minimum Further Information are not listed for this Course.
English language requirements
Test
Grade
AdditionalDetails
IELTS (Academic)
6.5
With a minimum of 5.5 in all skills.
Please note that the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) require IELTS 7.0 with no element below 6.5 for registration
Unistats information
Student satisfaction :
79%
Employment after 15 months (Most common jobs):
70%
Go onto work and study:
90%
Fees and funding
Republic of Ireland
9250.0
Year 1
Channel Islands
9250.0
Year 1
England
9250.0
Year 1
Northern Ireland
9250.0
Year 1
Scotland
9250.0
Year 1
Wales
9250.0
Year 1
Additional Fee Information
Our tuition fees for UK students starting full-time undergraduate study in 2022/23 are regulated by the UK government and are yet to be confirmed. For an indication, our tuition fees for UK students starting this course in 2021/22 are £9,250 per year.
We are currently not accepting applications from international/EU students.
Provider information
City Campus
Howard Street
Address3 are not listed for this Course.
Sheffield
S1 1WB
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