Graduate Diploma of Community Paramedicine
Online, Australia
Graduate Diploma
DURATION
1 year
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time, Part time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
TUITION FEES
AUD 36,650
STUDY FORMAT
Distance Learning
Key Summary
About: The Graduate Diploma of Community Paramedicine at Edith Cowan University prepares paramedics for roles in urgent, non-urgent and primary healthcare settings. The course develops advanced clinical knowledge, clinical decision-making, critical thinking and evidence-based practice. It combines applied research skills with clinical practice so students improve care and influence their organizations and the paramedicine community. Keywords: community paramedicine, advanced clinical skills, primary care, clinical reasoning, leadership.
Career Outcomes: Graduates will be positioned for leadership roles in paramedicine. Possible job titles include Extended Care Paramedic, Advanced Care Paramedic, Community Paramedic, Specialist Paramedic, Site Paramedic, Industrial Medic, Advanced Care Practitioner, Paramedic Practitioner.
Designed to provide paramedics with the necessary knowledge and skills to undertake a career in community paramedicine, working in urgent care, non-urgent care and primary healthcare settings.
The course focuses on the clinical issues directly related to practice, and develops a greater depth of understanding to enhance clinical decision-making and critical thinking. Students will learn advanced-level clinical knowledge to apply to their daily paramedical practice, while at the same time learning advanced skills in evidence-based practice.
The combination of advanced clinical knowledge and applied research knowledge and skills provides students with the ability to continuously improve their own clinical practice, as well as impact on the organisation they are employed by and the broader Paramedicine community.
Year 1 - Semester 1
- Advanced Clinical Examination and Leadership for Paramedics
- Paramedic Advanced Practice 1
- Ageing, Health and Wellbeing
Year 1 - Semester 2
- Paramedic Advanced Practice 2
- Paramedic Advanced Practice 3
Students must select one of the following units:
- Advanced Obstetrics for Paramedics
- Advanced Cardiac Studies
- Introduction to Emergency Management
- Evidence-Based Practice
- Drug Use and Addictive Behaviours
- Communicate complex medical and paramedical knowledge, research principles and methods to demonstrate an advanced level of extended care paramedicine.
- Apply cognitive, technical and creative skills to investigate, evaluate and synthesise complex ideas, concepts and theories in authentic extended care Paramedicine contexts.
- Use high level self-management skills to initiate, appraise and operate in complex and dynamic extended care Paramedicine professional environments.
Graduates of this program will be well-placed to take on the leadership roles within paramedicine.
Possible future job titles
- Extended Care Paramedic
- Advanced Care Paramedic
- Community Paramedic
- Specialist Paramedic
- Advanced Paramedic
- Site Paramedic
- Industrial Medic
- Industrial Paramedic
- Advanced Care Practitioner
- Paramedic Practitioner