Graduate Certificate in Advanced Care Paramedic
London, Canada
DURATION
48 Weeks
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
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EARLIEST START DATE
Jan 2025
TUITION FEES
CAD 14,484
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Introduction
As a career paramedic, you know the challenges that you face 24-7. With Fanshawe’s Advanced Care Paramedic graduate certificate program, you’ll build on your already impressive skill set by learning how to better manage life-threatening situations. As well, you’ll increase the range of skills you can offer to employers and the level of care you can offer those in need. More skills. More lives saved. More diverse employment opportunities.
Your Learning Experience
Class sizes for this 48-week program are limited to maintain small student-faculty ratios that will ensure you receive the highest quality, most advanced paramedic training available.
You’ll learn by using cutting-edge medical technology as you move from the classroom to the lab. A clinical placement in a hospital will broaden your knowledge of acute care areas, such as adult and pediatric emergency, obstetrics, operating room and intensive care. As a CMA-accredited graduate certificate, you can be sure your critical thinking and decision-making will be challenged, nurtured and put to the test. When you complete the program, you’ll be poised, experienced and ready to face any challenge that comes your way.
The practice of advanced care paramedicine requires graduates to demonstrate highly developed clinical reasoning and advanced care procedural skills, along with the ability to justify an intervention plan in accordance with Advanced Life Support Patient Care Standards, best practices, evidence-based medicine and clinical findings. Graduates will feel comfortable working collaboratively with an inter-disciplinary health care team to ensure optimal and sustainable patient care, including exploring treatment and management plans with physicians in real-time. This program uses Fanshawe's simulation lab and technology.
As a graduate, you will be eligible to write Ontario's Advanced Care Paramedic (ACP) certification exam, a requirement for base hospital certification and employment as an advanced care paramedic in the province.
This program meets all Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities program standards.
Program Code: ADP2
Admissions
Curriculum
Level 1
- Paramedicine-Intro to Adv
- Anatomy & Physiology for Advanced Care
- Pharmacology for Advanced Care
- Patient Assessment
- Airway & Respiratory Emergencies
- Mgmt of Cardiovascular Emergencies
Level 2
- Advanced Cardiovascular Emergencies
- Traumatic Emergencies
- Paramedicine: Unifying Concepts
Level 3
- Hospital Clinical Practice
- Field Internship
- Comprehensive Review
Program Outcome
The graduate has reliably demonstrated the ability to
- Interact professionally with patients and others, adhering to relevant provincial and federal legislation and codes of conduct.
- Collaborate with a broad range of personnel such as employers, Primary Care Paramedics, Critical Care Paramedics, Communications Officers, firefighters, police officers, physicians, allied health professionals and others.
- Lead an interdisciplinary team to ensure optimal patient care.
- Provide complete and accurate reports, in compliance with current legislation, regulations, standards and established policies and procedures.
- Analyze patient assessment findings critically, and infer a provisional diagnosis, using relevant theory and practices and complying with current legislation, regulations, standards, best practices and established policies and procedures.
- Evaluate patient condition continuously, anticipating changes and adapting interventions to provide safe and optimal care.
- Justify an intervention plan in accordance with ACP Medical Directives, best practices, evidence-based medicine and clinical findings.
- Perform basic and advanced life support skills safely and competently, including controlled medical acts, in accordance with established standards and Medical Directives.
- Employ preventative and therapeutic interventions, while maintaining safety of self and others, to promote optimal well-being of the patient, in compliance with current legislation, regulations, standards and established policies and procedures.
- Formulate strategies for self-evaluation and for improving proficiency in the practice of paramedicine.
Career Opportunities
Graduates of Fanshawe’s Advanced Care Paramedic program are eligible to pursue certification and employment within community paramedic services in Ontario (provincial and hospital certification will be required), clinical practices across Canada (province-specific licensure may be required) or medical research clinical settings. For graduates seeking even more adventure, other opportunities could include flight paramedicine or remote clinical practices (e.g., national mining operations).
Did you know Fanshawe consistently ranks high in graduation employment rates among large colleges in Ontario?
Here are some examples of career opportunities for graduates of Fanshawe’s Advanced Care Paramedic program:
Firefighter Paramedic
The firefighter paramedic is a diversely skilled professional serving as a key component of an integrated fire and emergency medical response system.
Advanced – Emergency Medical Care Assistant (A-EMCA) Paramedic
Perform primary and advanced emergency medical care and controlled acts.
Paramedic / First Aid Attendant
Responsible for first aid coverage of crews working along remote transmission lines and in camp environments.