First Contact Practitioner (Paramedic)

Program Overview

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This two-stage program is designed for paramedics working in primary care settings. It enhances their clinical assessment, patient management, and decision-making skills, aligning with Health Education England's Roadmap to Practice. The program includes supervised clinical practice and a portfolio or hybrid route option for experienced students. It prepares paramedics to become first contact practitioners, advancing their careers and clinical capabilities.

Program Outline

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Degree Overview:

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Program Overview:

• Designed specifically for paramedic practitioners who work as first contact practitioners in primary care settings
• Aligned with Health Education England's Roadmap to Practice
• Develops advanced clinical assessments and management of patients, decision-making skills, and collaboration with other healthcare professionals

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Program Objectives:

• Enhance knowledge, abilities, and competencies in advanced clinical assessment, patient management, clinical decision making, and collaboration with other healthcare professionals within the primary care setting.
• Learn to apply knowledge, skills, and abilities to demonstrate competence in practice.
• Achieve capability as a first contact practitioner (FCP).

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Program Description:

• Two-stage program with 40 total credits.
• Stage 1: One 20-credit module focusing on theoretical and practical knowledge and skills in core clinical competencies.
• Stage 2: One 20-credit module and 75 hours of supervised clinical practice in the student's primary care workplace, demonstrating achievement of FCP capabilities.
• Portfolio or hybrid route option for students with prior study and clinical expertise.
• Delivered over three semesters, starting in September or January.
• First stage delivered in one semester, second stage delivered in two semesters.

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Outline:

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Program Content:

• Advanced clinical assessment and management
• Patient management
• Clinical decision making
• Collaboration with other healthcare professionals
• Application of the Knowledge, Skills, Attributes framework

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Program Structure:

• Two stages, each with one core module
• Stage 2 includes supervised clinical practice

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Course Schedule:

• Starts in either September or January
• Three semesters in total

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Modules:

• Advanced Assessment and Management for the First Contact Practitioner (Paramedic):
• Focus on knowledge, skills, and competencies in advanced clinical assessments, patient management, clinical decision-making, and collaborating with healthcare professionals in primary care.
• Primary Care Competencies for the First Contact Practitioner (Paramedic):
• Apply knowledge, skills, and abilities to demonstrate competence and capability in practice through critical reflection, development, and learning for the FCP role.
• Health Modules (e-learning):
• Requisite for the Roadmap to practice, evidenced in the portfolio.

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Teaching:

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Teaching Methods:

• Online delivery through learning environment
• Live lectures, webinars, case studies
• Simulated scenarios, role plays, virtual workshops
• Discussion forums

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Teaching Faculty:

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Assessment:

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Assessment Methods:

• Written assignments, focusing on student-selected clinical consultations
• Work-based learning portfolio, demonstrating the achievement of FCP knowledge, skills, and abilities
• Critical reflections, showcasing clinical reasoning and practice

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Assessment criteria:

• Not explicitly specified.
However, it can be inferred that assessment criteria will align with learning outcomes and FCP competencies.

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Careers:

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Potential Career Paths:

Advanced practitioner

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Opportunities and Outcomes:

• Transfer credits towards the MSc in Advanced Practitioner
• Career advancement
• Enhanced clinical skills and knowledge

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Learning Resources:

• Lecture recordings, reading materials, multimedia resources

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Fees and Entry Requirements

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