All modules are subject to availability and this list may change at any time.
The course consists of 120 credits per year. Most modules are 20 credits, meaning you’ll study six modules each year. Some longer modules, such as a dissertation, are worth more (e.g. 40 credits). In these cases, you’ll study fewer modules - but the number of credits will always add up to 120.
Core and compulsory modules are fundamental to achieving the learning outcomes for your course and must be studied.
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Clinical Practice Education 1 (40 credits)
This module helps to introduce and develop the key clinical concepts and skills that build the foundations of paramedic practice. From non technical leadership and communication skills to the practical skills associated with cardiac arrests and trauma, this module will help to prepare you for your future career.
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Anatomy and Physiology for Paramedics
This module will develop your functional knowledge of human anatomy and physiology, exploring the concept of homeostasis whilst evolving your understanding of key systems, their interactions and interdependence.
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Introduction to Evidence Based Practice
In this module you're introduced to the concepts and principles of the knowledge on which we base our practice. You'll be discussing research, reviews and guidelines, learning how to assess each to best influence your care for patients.
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Foundations of Professional Practice
This module introduces you to the wider social determinants of health and enables you to explore how these affect health and social care policy. A wide range of issues relating to health economics and provisions of healthcare will be discussed.
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Professional and Contemporary Issues in Paramedic Practice
Gain a working knowledge and understanding of the professional and non-clinical issues that you will face in practice. Examine the behaviours and attitudes that are expected from paramedics and how they can better communicate and work as a team. You'll also look at the legal and ethical frameworks in which paramedics operate.
All modules are subject to availability and this list may change at any time.
The course consists of 120 credits per year. Most modules are 20 credits, meaning you’ll study six modules each year. Some longer modules, such as a dissertation, are worth more (e.g. 40 credits). In these cases, you’ll study fewer modules - but the number of credits will always add up to 120.
Core and compulsory modules are fundamental to achieving the learning outcomes for your course and must be studied.
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Clinical Practice Education 2 (40 credits)
This module aims to build your confidence, evolve theory-practice links and advance dexterous skill towards autonomous paramedic practice. You'll also strengthen your cognitive processes, assuring critical thinking in the development of a robust and resilient pre-hospital care construct.
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Research Methods
This module offers the exciting opportunity to prepare and undertake a small action research project. It will introduce you to research methodology, the need for ethical approval, how to find and analyse data and how to use literature to support the formulation of a research question. The module will also help you to become better critical readers of others’ research.
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Acute Pre-hospital Care
Further develop your clinical assessment skills, such as a systems based approach to linking anatomical knowledge to practice. This module also draws on previous experiences gained from clinical practice to inform and explore clinical decision making when identifying common pre-hospital presentations.
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Clinical Assessment and Examination for Paramedics
Building on your knowledge from the first year, you'll develop your clinical assessment and examination skills. You will assess and examine the cardiovascular, respiratory, neurological, gastrointestinal, musculoskeletal and endocrine systems.
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Pathophysiology for Paramedics
This module builds on the content of the first year anatomy and physiology module. You'll examine the pathophysiology of shock, heart failure, myocardial infarction and respiratory failure.
All modules are subject to availability and this list may change at any time.
The course consists of 120 credits per year. Most modules are 20 credits, meaning you’ll study six modules each year. Some longer modules, such as a dissertation, are worth more (e.g. 40 credits). In these cases, you’ll study fewer modules - but the number of credits will always add up to 120.
Core and compulsory modules are fundamental to achieving the learning outcomes for your course and must be studied.
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Clinical Practice Education 3 (40 credits)
This module further develops your core pre-hospital care principles, refining theory-practice links whilst exploring and critically analysing models of management, leadership and clinical decision-making.
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Clinical Pharmacology for Paramedics
Develop your knowledge of applied pharmacology with respect to paramedic practice. The principles of pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics will be highlighted and pharmacological knowledge will be used to explain drug interactions. You will reflect on your knowledge gained for your individual professional development.
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Research Project (40 credits)
Draw together everything you've learned, pick what topic interests you the most and let yourself go. This module is all about you completing a research project based on a practice area of your choosing, with a view to presenting your work at a conference or even having it published.
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Management of the Critically Ill Patient
This module will provide you with grounded and functional cognition surrounding critical symptomology. Various aetiologies will be examined and discussed, evolving and assuring your understanding of life-threatening conditions.