Emergency and Urgent Care of Special Populations

Program Overview

Delivered predominantly online with weekly tutorials, it supports flexible learning and includes short answer exams and case-based assessments. Upon completion, paramedics can pursue opportunities outside of ambulance trusts, such as in GP surgeries and hospitals.

Program Outline

Degree Overview:

The purpose of this module is to enable students to comprehensively manage a range of clinical presentations in the out of hospital environment considering evidence-based medicine and principles of autonomous practice. This module will focus on those special populations that require clinical judgment and pro-active patient-centred care such as end-of-life, older persons, obstetrics, mental health and paediatrics.

Outline:

This module can be completed as a standalone module to enhance your professional practice or can be completed as part of the BSc (Hons) Enhancing Paramedic Practice top up. This course is suitable for all HCPC registered paramedics who have completed study at Foundation level or those with IHCD qualifications on production of evidence of CPD in the previous 2 days. The mode of delivery is predominantly online and are designed to allow for a flexible approach to learning, which learners will be able to fit around their professional and personal lives to cause minimal disruption and ensure that a healthy work-life balance can be maintained. The module is broken down into weekly themes and within those weekly themes you will find pre-recorded content such as bite sized lectures, discussion boards and case studies, this will roughly equate to 4 hours’ worth of online content. These theory elements will be supported by weekly 1-hour tutorials delivered via the collaborate virtual classroom platform and will provide you with an opportunity to ask questions, take part in case/scenario-based discussions, review current evidence and key points from that week’s theme will be recapped.

Assessment:

This module includes a 1.5 hours short answer exam and case-based examinations.

Teaching:

The course is delivered predominantly online, with a flexible approach to when and where you study/learn. Course is delivered by experienced pre-hospital tutors. Each module will consist of a series of pre-recorded lectures that will be linked to discussion boards and case studies and a weekly live tutorial (that will also be recorded in case you cannot make it) where we will revisit key points and apply the knowledge to case studies.

Careers:

Opens opportunities of employment outside of ambulance trusts, such as GP surgeries and hospitals.

Other:

Complete as a standalone module or work towards BSc (Hons). Will completing this course allow me to register as a Paramedic with the HCPC?