Outline
Outline
Paramedics are emergency care practitioners whose job requires them to perform under pressure.
While working towards your degree you will become a student ambulance officer and then an ambulance officer.
Your first year includes subjects from the interprofessional program, which you will take with other health sciences students, as well as specific paramedicine subjects.
In your second year, you will become a student ambulance officer with St John Western Australia while continuing your studies at Curtin. Clinical laboratories are conducted at both Curtin Perth and St John Western Australia’s premises while opportunities for inter-professional learning take place across the course.
You will graduate with a Bachelor of Science (Paramedicine) and be able to apply for registration with the Paramedicine Board of Australia.
To study this course you must have a provisional letter of pre-employment from St John Western Australia before you can apply. You must remain employed with St John Western Australia as a student ambulance officer or ambulance officer to remain in the Curtin course.
To complete the three-year program, you will need an unrestricted driving licence, must meet all academic and on-road practical requirements and maintain employment with St John Western Australia as an ambulance officer. For further information, please refer to the St John Western Australia website.
Please refer to the handbook for additional course overview information.
What jobs can the Paramedicine course lead to?
Careers
- Ambulance officer
- Paramedic.
Industries
- Clinical support
- Critical care
- Emergency services
- Search and rescue services
- Station management
- Training.
What you'll learn
- demonstrate accountable, safe, effective and innovative paramedic practice incorporating research evidence and related professional competences.
- use reflective, evidence based and problem solving approaches to the provision of paramedicine practice.
- access, critically evaluate and utilise health care information in the assessment and management of prehospital patients and groups.
- communicate effectively with clients, families, communities and other health professionals in the pre-hospital and primary health contexts.
- use technologies that assist the paramedic to provide quality patient care within a changing health care environment.
- be an independent, self-directed learner who constructively reflects upon the health, social and educational experiences gained through experience and further education and research.
- incorporate regional, national, and global trends and innovations in health care into paramedic practice.
- incorporate social, economic and cultural differences in the provision of culturally appropriate and sensitive care to clients in a pre-hospital or primary health setting.
- demonstrate ethical practice in accordance with legislation, professional capabilities for registered paramedics and professional codes of conduct.
