Pursue a rewarding career by gaining the knowledge and expertise to become a key member of the workforce within the health and social care system. DMU has more than 50 years’ experience in delivering high-quality health professional education and you will be taught by paramedic lecturers as well as other healthcare professionals, such as midwives, nurses and doctors. You will also benefit from specialist equipment on campus, including mock ambulances and iPad-based advanced life support simulators. Study a range of topics, from foundations of ambulance practice and trauma and resuscitative care to paediatrics and child health. Strong links and integrated work placements will allow you to put theory into practice. You will gain practical experience during all three years of the course by working alongside senior paramedics on emergency ambulances and rapid response cars, as well as wider exposure through a number of community-based placements, such as in an emergency department or doctor’s surgery.   Graduates will be eligible to apply for registration as a paramedic with the Health & Care Professions Council (HCPC). A two-year Associate Ambulance Practice (DipHE) programme is also available. Key features: • Eligibility to apply to register with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) upon graduation, enabling employment in a wide variety of clinical areas. • Strong links and integrated work placements with local health and social care providers allow you to put theory into practice. • International experience opportunities are available in the third year of the programme as part of your final project. • You will be taught by both paramedic lecturers and other healthcare professionals, such as midwives, nurses and doctors, and benefit from specialist equipment on campus, including mock ambulances and iPad-based advanced life support simulators. • State-of-the-art simulation suite giving students hands-on patient care and ward experience. This purpose-built space features three large multi-purpose teaching rooms, three cubicles for small scale teaching and demonstrations, a counselling room and student breakout spaces. • You will study a range of modules including foundations of ambulance practice, trauma and resuscitative care, paediatrics and child health and paramedic clinical pharmacology. This will prepare students to be able to undertake ambulance based placements and gain the skills to safely work within this supervised environment. In addition students will be able to apply knowledge and skills learnt to real 999 emergency patients under the guidance of an experienced Practice Educator (PEd). **Due to the high demand for this course, once the course is full, offers will be made for the next available cohort.** **DMU’s careers and employability service, known as DMU Works, was awarded the Best University Careers/Employability Service at the National Undergraduate Employability (NUE) Awards in February 2021. We understand university is a huge investment, and our careers commitment to you is not simply to help you secure a job, but to equip you with the skills to thrive, adapt and innovate in our ever-changing world.**

First Year •Foundations of Ambulance Practice •Assessment and Consultation Skills •Foundations of Anatomy, Physiology and Pathophysiology •Accountable, Legal and Ethical Practice •Simulated Emergency Care 1 •Applied Emergency Care 1 Second Year •Paediatrics and Child Health •Social and Psychological Emergency Care •Research in Paramedicine •Trauma and Resuscitative Care •Simulated Emergency Care 2 •Applied Emergency Care 2 Third Year •Urgent and Primary Care •Paramedic Leadership and Legal Practice •Paramedic Clinical Pharmacology •Improving Paramedicine •Applied Emergency Care

Teaching and assessments Learning is supported by a strong system of personal tutors and teaching teams, clinical work placements and enthusiastic mentors. Teaching methods include: •Lectures •Seminars •Presentations •Skill Labs •Tutorials •Enquiry-based problem solving •Independent e-learning You will complete blocks of clinical placements 37.5 hours per week (average) and blocks comprised of theory and independent learning hours up to an equivalent of 37.5 hours each week. This means some weeks you may complete more hours than others, typically following the work rota of your mentor on that placement. Students in practice placements are allocated a mentor to help develop and support learning. Assessment A variety of approaches are used to assess theory and practice. Practice is assessed through the completion of a clinical skills passport and practice assessment documents. Theory is assessed through poster presentations, OSPE (practical) assessments, tutor marked assignments, written exams, literature reviews, case studies, e-assessments, numeracy assessments, team based learning assessments, essays and critical reflection. Teaching contact hours Contact hours in a typical week will depend to some extent on the modules you are studying. However, typically you will have up to 16 contact hours of teaching and this will break down as: Personal tutorial/small group teaching: approx. 1 hour of tutorials or small group teaching each week Medium group teaching: approx. 6 hours of practical classes, workshops or seminars each week Large group teaching: approx. 10 hours of lectures each week Personal study: approx. 21.5 hours studying and revising in your own time each week, including some guided study using hand-outs, online activities, etc.

Health and Care Professions Council

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.

Course code: B780

Institution code: D26

Campus Name: Leicester Campus

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Year 1

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If English is not your first language an IELTS score of 7 in all components when you start the course is essential. English language tuition, delivered by our British Council accredited Centre for English Language Learning (CELL), is available both before and during the course. Please visit dmu.ac.uk/international for more information.

Student satisfaction : 75%

Employment after 15 months (Most common jobs): 65%

Go onto work and study: 85%

England	9250.0	Year 1
Northern Ireland	9250.0	Year 1
Scotland	9250.0	Year 1
Wales	9250.0	Year 1

For students registering in the 2022/23 academic year, the fees for this programme are yet to be confirmed. Please note that fees are subject to an annual review. Any increase in fees for Home students would be based upon a review of our provision and in line with the fee cap set by the government. For EU and Overseas students such reviews will be based on a market assessment and communicated to students at least 6-months before any programme commencing. Please visit the tuition fees pages of our website for further information: dmu.ac.uk/funding.

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