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This module will enable you to demonstrate a robust knowledge base of applied anatomy, physiology, and pharmacology to develop your understanding of the impact of disease or injury and use this understanding to correctly monitor, assess, treat, and begin to develop appropriate dispositions for the wide range of conditions you are faced with in clinical practice, related to nervous, respiratory, cardiovascular, lymphatic and musculoskeletal systems.

This module will develop you both academically and professionally, introducing and exploring the academic skills of writing, referencing, literature searching, and academic integrity. The social sciences will be explored in the context of paramedic practice and will include communication, cognitive issues, law, ethics, professional accountability, and the role of the HCPC alongside the role of the College of Paramedics. Human factors, patient and paramedic health and wellbeing, psychological and sociological factors will also be explored in context to aid clinical decision-making.

Following on from foundations of Paramedic Practice 1, this module will further enable you to demonstrate knowledge of applied anatomy, physiology, and pharmacology to develop your understanding of the impact of disease or injury, and use this understanding to correctly monitor, assess, treat and begin to develop appropriate dispositions for the wide range of conditions you are faced with in your clinical practice relating to digestive, renal and reproductive presentations.

This module will bring together all the content in previous modules and explore selected cases in an integrated and holistic format. It will impart relevance and aid in connecting theory to practice.

This module forms the first clinical placement module of the course. This module allows you to actively participate in care episodes utilising the knowledge and experience gained through the year one modules Principles of Paramedic Practice and Professional Studies. The module will give you the opportunity to gain competency in elements of your practice assessment documents. You will spend time with Practice Educators (PEd’s) and other healthcare professionals gaining experience of emergency, urgent, and unscheduled care.

There are 2 clinical placement blocks in year 1, allowing approximately 450 hours on placement with the local ambulance service trust, working with a crew on an ambulance vehicle. 

This module will develop your ability to critically analyse the pathology of disease, analyse the evidence to develop and implement a robust physical assessment, and undertake monitoring utilising best evidence to plan, treat, and develop appropriate dispositions for the wide range of conditions encountered in clinical practice relating to the cardiac, respiratory, endocrine, and nervous systems.

The delivery of this module combines traditional lectures with practical workshops. The practical workshops will be followed by a lecture in which you will see the evidence behind your practice as demonstrated in the practical session. This will not only reinforce your practice but highlight the role of evidence and research in your day-to-day experience as a paramedic.

This module will cover quantitative research methods (including observational and experimental study designs), quantitative data-analysis methods, qualitative research methods, qualitative data-analysis methods, literature review, critical appraisal, and ethics.

Following on from Developing Paramedic Practice 1, this module will further develop your ability to critically analyse the pathology of disease, analyse the evidence to develop and implement a robust physical assessment, and undertake monitoring utilising best evidence to plan, treat, and develop appropriate dispositions for the wide range of conditions you are faced with in your clinical practice relating to GI, renal, and immunological diseases.

This module will develop you both academically and professionally, developing and enhancing your ability to relate theory to practice by utilising selected cases to explore the case holistically and in detail.

This module continues to build on clinical practice developed in the first year. This module allows you to actively participate and develop the skills learnt in year one, progressing your competence and confidence in episodes of care, utilising the knowledge and experience gained throughout both years. The module will give you the opportunity to gain further competency in elements of your practice assessment documents. You will continue to spend time with Practice Educators (PEds) and other healthcare professionals gaining experience of emergency, urgent, and unscheduled care. There will be pre and post-placement activities including professional expectations and engagement. Post-placement activity will include a debrief from a health and wellbeing perspective followed by a clinical discourse relating to clinical/academic underpinning issues found in placement.

There are 2 clinical placement blocks in year 2, allowing approximately 450 hours on placement with the local ambulance service trust, working with a crew on an ambulance vehicle. 

This dissertation module provides you with the opportunity to test your learning, display your subject specific knowledge, demonstrate your methodological skills, and explore in detail a topic that interests you. You are encouraged to begin to think about your dissertation during the first block teaching period and to develop and present an initial proposal, Once the initial proposal has been submitted, you are assigned a supervisor with interests and knowledge appropriate to the chosen topic.

Dissertation supervision sessions in block two provide you with guidance as you refine these plans and bring your research to completion.

This module develops the student’s awareness of non-emergency unscheduled care presentations within the arena of minor injury & minor illness. You will explore the contemporary scope of paramedic practice, and enhance patient assessment skills, concentrating on focused assessment.

This module will develop your ability to critically evaluate patient care presentations and ascertain if there is an emergency or urgent care need and care plan disposition accordingly.

Indicative content includes: Chronic health conditions and exacerbations, Minor Injury and Illness, Formulation of care plans, Patient disposition, Applied pharmacology, End of Life Care, Supporting other clinicians and Principles of independent practice.

This module will focus on high-risk low frequency events encountered in the pre-hospital environment. It will cover acute injury and illness across the life span, the assessment treatment and overall management of the situation to include the role of leadership.

This module forms the final clinical placement module of the course.

Students are now expected to actively participate in care episodes utilising the knowledge and experience gained through the programme.

The module runs over 2 blocks within the year, and students are given the opportunity to explore other healthcare environments; such as Emergency Departments, General Practice, Maternity and Anaesthetics/Critical care. They will also attend placement back with the local ambulance service.

Students are expected to gain competency in elements of their practice assessment documents while spending time with Practice Educators (PEds) and other healthcare professionals gaining experience of emergency, urgent and unscheduled care.