**Why choose this course**
- Study a hands-on, clinical curriculum, designed in collaboration with the South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust, where you’ll learn to meet the diverse needs of patients, families and carers.
- Access our Clinical Simulation Centre, including our ambulance bay equipped with a working ambulance, to practise real scenarios on lifelike mannequins and actors.
- Spend half of your training in clinical placements, to practise your skills in healthcare settings, under the supervision of qualified practitioners.
- Learn from a multidisciplinary team of lecturers, who are all healthcare professionals with experience of working in the NHS.
- Get the academic requirements needed to register with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) to work as a paramedic once you’ve graduated.
**What you will study**
On this course, designed in collaboration with the South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust, you’ll learn to meet the diverse needs of patients, families and carers, within a variety of settings.
In your first year, you’ll study topics that are fundamental to paramedic science, including concepts of caring, essential paramedic practice, physical health, and research and evidence-based practice, ensuring you have a solid foundation upon which to build the rest of your degree.
During your second year, you’ll learn about care across the lifespan, management of physical and mental health, patient assessments, and innovation and leadership.
In your third year, you’ll delve deeper into effective decision making for complex care, clinical leadership and consolidated paramedic practice, and patient management. You’ll also learn how to critically evaluate and appraise research and healthcare literature.
Throughout your training, you’ll also explore and develop the values required in modern healthcare, as outlined in the NHS Constitution.
Course Details - Modules
To see the full range of modules for this course please visit our website – the link is under the Course contact details. You will also find full details of the programme, including programme structure, assessment methods, contact hours and Graduate prospects.
Course Details – Assessment Method
Assessment Methods are not listed for this Course.
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:
S85
Campus Name:
Kate Granger Building (Surrey Research Park)
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
Overall:
BBC
We do not include General Studies or Critical Thinking in our offers.
Required subjects:
An A level in a relevant science subject is required. Applicants taking the Science Practical Endorsement are required to pass.
Recent study within the last 5 years required.
Overall:
BBBBB
Required subjects:
A relevant science is required.
Recent study within the last 5 years required.
GCSE or Equivalent:
Scottish National 5: English Language - C
Scottish National 5: Maths - C
Scottish National 5: Science - C.
Overall:
QAA recognised Access to Higher Education Diploma with 45 Level 3 credits overall including 21 at Distinction and 24 at Merit.
Required subjects:
Must include 15 level 3 credits in Science.
Recent study within the last 5 years required.
Overall:
BBC
Required subjects:
A relevant science is required.
Recent study within the last 5 years required.
GCSE or Equivalent:
Scottish National 5: English Language - C
Scottish National 5: Maths - C
Scottish National 5: Science - C.
Overall:
31 overall including 5,5,5 at Higher Level.
Required subjects:
A relevant science is required.
Recent study within the last 5 years required.
GCSE or Equivalent:
English, HL4/SL4 (including MYP).
Maths, HL4/SL4 (including MYP).
Science, HL4/SL4 (including MYP).
Maths Studies, SL4.
Overall:
DMM
Required subjects:
BTEC Applied Science. Other BTECs can be considered when taken with an A level in a relevant science subject.
Recent study within the last 5 years required.
Overall:
Pass overall with BBC from a combination of the Advanced Skills Challenge Certificate and two A levels. Applicants taking an A level science subject with the Science Practical Endorsement are required to pass the practical element.
Required subjects:
A relevant science is required.
Recent study within the last 5 years required.
Please click the following link to find out more about qualification requirements for this course
Minimum Qualification Requirements
Minimum Further Information are not listed for this Course.
English language requirements
Test
Grade
AdditionalDetails
IELTS (Academic)
7.0
7.0 overall with 7.0 in each element
View the other English language qualifications that we accept.
