Paramedic Science BSc (Hons)

Sheffield Hallam University

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Course summary

• Combine theory with practice to meet the challenges of integrated patient care.
• Learn to assess, stabilise, treat and manage patients in an accident or emergency.
• Meet the future healthcare agenda through digital competence.
• Study an integrated curriculum with other healthcare professions.
• Apply for registration with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).

Paramedics work in a range of settings – dealing with all aspects of emergency, urgent and social care. On this course you’ll learn how to respond to a variety of conditions. When you graduate, you’ll have the skills and knowledge you need to enter a challenging and rewarding profession.

How you learn

All our courses are designed around a set of key principles based on engaging you with the world, collaborating with others, challenging you to think in new ways, and providing you with a supportive environment in which you can thrive.

Throughout the course you’ll collaborate with students from other disciplines – learning with, from and about areas of healthcare that are relevant to your future profession. Working in collaboration to solve real-world problems, you’ll be able to transform the lives of individuals and communities. You’ll be challenged, you’ll develop your skills and you’ll enhance your employability.

As well as undertaking academic modules at our Collegiate Campus, you’ll gain experience in a variety of service provider locations on placement.

You learn through

• lectures
• self-directed study
• practical sessions
• simulation
• group exercises
• practice placement
• interprofessional collaboration

You will be supported in your learning journey towards highly skilled, graduate level employment through a number of key areas.

These include

• access to our unique student support triangle to help with your personal, academic and career development
• access to our Skills Centre with one to ones, webinars and online resources, where you can get help with planning and structuring your assignments
• industry-specific employability activities such as live projects, learning in simulated environments and networking opportunities

Applied learning

Work placements

You’ll apply the theory you study to practice-based learning experiences. Here you’ll develop critical and ethical approaches to your practice – preparing you to become a life-long, competent professional. The experiences you’re provided with are compulsory to achieve the course’s practice-based learning outcomes.

These experiences will help you build your skills, confidence, creativity, resilience, integrity, and curiosity. They’ll take place in different practice-based learning environments – reflecting the range of ways services are currently delivered. This might include simulated learning and virtual placements, alongside real-world experience of services delivered face to face to service users.

We’ll ensure the practice-based learning element of your course complies with the requirements of the Professional and Statutory Regulatory Body (PSRB) which governs the paramedic profession. So by the end of your course, you’ll have the opportunity to show that you meet the requirements to register as a paramedic.

Equipment and facilities

On this course you work with

• simulated environments
• high fidelity simulation equipment
• cutting-edge pre-hospital equipment
• specialist manikins
• an extensive specialist visiting lecturer pool
• a dedicated learning and teaching support librarian
• a specialist health and wellbeing learning resource centre
• an experienced student support officer network

We’ve invested over £100m in new facilities to help you study how and when you want. This means 24-hour libraries and study spaces designed by our students.