One-year programme in Paramedic – National Paramedic Education (class 2006/2008)

The programme amounts to 60 credits and consists of six courses of 10 credits each. Four of the courses include work placement periods in addition to the theoretic part. The six courses are:

• Course 1: Communication, counselling and ethics
• Course 2: Health personnel law
• Course 3: Emergency medical treatment I
• Course 4: Emergency medical treatment II
• Course 5: Traumatology
• Course 6: Operative ambulance work

The aim of the education is to graduate candidates who have acquired specialised knowledge of the profession. The practice should be in accordance with the health legislation’s requirements for work practice and the profession’s knowledge and values. Equal education on a national basis makes the formal competence visible.

Higher Education Entrance Qualification or approved prior learning and work experience. In addition, the applicants must be authorised and trained ambulance personnel with a minimum of 2 years of work experience. (If you are younger than 25, you need Higher Education Entrance Qualification in order to be admitted.)

The programme is aimed at authorised ambulance personnel, but other authorised health personnel with 3 years of previous higher education (nurses, physiotherapists etc.) may also apply. The requirement is at least 2 years of relevant experience within the field.

The course “Pharmacology for ambulance personnel” is now a compulsory course which everyone who has been admitted to the programme must take before they start on the emergency medical courses (course 3-6). This course has its own admission requirement: Higher Education Entrance Qualification or approved prior learning and work experience. In addition, the applicants must be authorised and trained ambulance personnel.

The applicant must be able to read English literature, know how to use computer tools, and have access to the Internet. The applicant must have a competence certificate for driving an ambulance during call-out.

It is a requirement that the students have documented previous knowledge of physiology, anatomy and pathology. The students who do not have this previous knowledge must acquire it before they start course 3. They will be offered web-based courses within this subject fields in cooperation with GjøvikUniversityCollege.

The programme is taught in meetings (2 meetings of 3 days per course) combined with web-based teaching and supervision via a web-based educational learning system (Classfronter). In the periods between the meetings, there will be video lectures and cases as basis for academic discussions and group work. The students will be working on compulsory assignments throughout the programme. These assignments are arranged so that they should be solved in groups with supervision from the course teacher. In addition, there will be compulsory work placement periods: 9 weeks attendance at different hospital wards and 4 weeks ambulance practice.

Individual web-based home examination of one or two days depending on course. A multiple choice test in Classfronter will also be a part of some examinations.

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