Pre-Hospital Emergency Care

This one-year course, run in partnership with the South Western Ambulance Service, provides a unique opportunity to enter the ambulance service and will help you gain access to a paramedic career pathway.
You will be taught by both university academic staff and experienced paramedics from a range of clinical backgrounds, with teaching delivered both online and face-to-face at Wiltshire Air Ambulance base. This blended learning provides flexibility, allowing you to fit your learning around other responsibilities, such as caring duties.
Our expert academics will support you throughout the course, and you will join a close-knit community of students.
As well as your academic training, you will gain real-world experience of pre-hospital emergency care through placements with the South Western Ambulance Service in Bristol, Wiltshire, Somerset, or Dorset.
To prepare you for employment within the ambulance service, you will also complete blue light training (the emergency driving qualification) as part of the course.

Module Examples

• Developing Person-Centred Care in Paramedic Practice 1

• Physical and Clinical Sciences

• Clinical Practice 1

• Professionalism and Followship

• Introduction to Research and Evidence-Based Practice

https://www.cumbria.ac.uk/study/courses/undergraduate/pre-hospital-emergency-care-/

Formative assessment is an important feature within the programme and may include in‐class or online activities such as, research diaries, assignments and tests. The programme ensures summative assessments that are designed to provide a creative and balanced strategy throughout the programme.

The summative assessments all relate to the working environment of an ambulance service enabling you to take your assessed learning into the practice environment to optimise the provision of patient care.