Everything you need to know...
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What is the fee?
Home: £9,250 per year
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How long will I study?
4 Years
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Where will I study?
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What is the UCAS code?
BB17
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When do I start?
September 2024
Course summary
- Combine theory with practice to meet the challenges of integrated patient care.
- Learn to assess, stabilise, treat and manage patients in an accident or emergency.
- Meet the future healthcare agenda through digital competence.
- Study an integrated curriculum with other healthcare professions.
- Apply for registration with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).
Paramedics work in a range of settings – dealing with all aspects of emergency, urgent and social care. On this course you’ll learn how to respond to a variety of conditions. When you graduate, you’ll have the skills and knowledge you need to enter a challenging and rewarding profession.
This foundation year course is for those who don't meet the entry requirements for our BSc (Hons) course, or would like extra preparation before starting degree-level study.
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How you learn
All our courses are designed around a set of key principles based on engaging you with the world, collaborating with others, challenging you to think in new ways, and providing you with a supportive environment in which you can thrive.
Throughout the course you’ll collaborate with students from other disciplines – learning with, from and about areas of healthcare that are relevant to your future profession. Working in collaboration to solve real-world problems, you’ll be able to transform the lives of individuals and communities. You’ll be challenged, you’ll develop your skills and you’ll enhance your employability.
As well as undertaking academic modules at our Collegiate Campus, you’ll gain experience in a variety of service provider locations on placement.
You learn through
- Lectures
- Self-directed study
- Practical sessions
- Simulation
- Group exercises
- Practice placement
- Interprofessional collaboration
You will be supported in your learning journey towards highly skilled, graduate level employment through a number of key areas.
These include
- Access to our unique student support triangle to help with your personal, academic and career development
- Access to our Skills Centre with one to ones, webinars and online resources, where you can get help with planning and structuring your assignments
- Industry-specific employability activities such as live projects, learning in simulated environments and networking opportunities
Course leaders and tutors
Sharyn Edwards
Senior LecturerSharyn is a Lecturer in Paramedic Practice based within the College of Health, Wellbeing and Life Sciences, delivering teaching on the DipHE Paramedic Practice cours … Read more
Applied learning
Work placements
You’ll apply the theory you study to practice-based learning experiences. Here you’ll develop critical and ethical approaches to your practice – preparing you to become a life-long, competent professional. The experiences you’re provided with are compulsory to achieve the course’s practice-based learning outcomes.
These experiences will help you build your skills, confidence, creativity, resilience, integrity, and curiosity. They’ll take place in different practice-based learning environments – reflecting the range of ways services are currently delivered. This might include simulated learning and virtual placements, alongside real-world experience of services delivered face to face to service users.
We’ll ensure the practice-based learning element of your course complies with the requirements of the Professional and Statutory Regulatory Body (PSRB) which governs the paramedic profession. So by the end of your course, you’ll have the opportunity to show that you meet the requirements to register as a paramedic.
Future careers
This course prepares you for a career in:
- Ambulance trusts
- Critical care
- Specialist or advanced practice
- Primary care
- Research
- Police
- International settings
- Private practice
- Wilderness and remote medicine
- Media
Previous graduates of this course have gone on to work for:
- British Columbia Emergency Health Services
- East Midlands Ambulance Service
- East Midlands Hazardous Area Response
- Hull University
- London Ambulance Service
- Private healthcare practice in Dubai
- Sheffield Hallam University
- The Australian Ambulance Service
- The New Zealand Ambulance Service
- The Welsh Ambulance Service
- Yorkshire Air Ambulance
- Yorkshire Ambulance Education Department
- Yorkshire Ambulance Service
- Yorkshire Hazardous Area Response
Where will I study?
You study at Collegiate Campus through a structured mix of lectures, seminars and practical sessions as well as access to digital and online resources to support your learning.
Collegiate campus
Collegiate Campus can be found just off Ecclesall Road, a bustling student district.
Collegiate Campus map | Campus facilities
Collegiate library
Collegiate Library can be found just off Ecclesall Road. It's open 24 hours a day, every day.
Learn moreEquipment and facilities
On this course you work with
- Simulated environments
- High fidelity simulation equipment
- Cutting-edge pre-hospital equipment
- Specialist manikins
- An extensive specialist visiting lecturer pool
- A dedicated learning and teaching support librarian
- A specialist health and wellbeing learning resource centre
- An experienced student support officer network
We’ve invested over £100m in new facilities to help you study how and when you want. This means 24-hour libraries and study spaces designed by our students.
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Entry requirements
All students
We will offer flexibility on our usual entry requirements for clearing applicants. Please call us on 0330 024 6390 to discuss your options and apply.
Additional information for EU/International students
If you are an International or non-UK European student, you can find out more about the country specific qualifications we accept on our international qualifications page.
For details of English language entry requirements (IELTS), please see the information for 'All students'.
Modules
Important notice: The structure of this course is periodically reviewed and enhanced to provide the best possible learning experience for our students and ensure ongoing compliance with any professional, statutory and regulatory body standards. Module structure, content, delivery and assessment may change, but we expect the focus of the course and the learning outcomes to remain as described above. Following any changes, updated module information will be published on this page.
Year 1
Compulsory modules
Developing The Fundamentals Of A Healthcare Professional
Promotion Of Contemporary Issues In Healthcare
Year 2
Compulsory modules
Clinical Placement Practice 1
Collaboration For Individual And Community Wellbeing
Foundations Of Paramedic Practice 1A
Foundations Of Paramedic Practice 1B
Personal And Professional Development
Year 3
Compulsory modules
Assessing And Addressing Complexity In Practice
Clinical Placement Practice 2
Developing Paramedic Practice 2A
Developing Paramedic Practice 2B
Evidence And Enquiry For Practice
Final year
Compulsory modules
Clinical Placement Practice 3
Complexity & Leadership In Professional Practice
Independant Paramedic Practice
Specialist Populations In Paramedic Practice
The Advancing Professional
Fees and funding
Home students
Our tuition fee for UK students starting full-time undergraduate study in 2024/25 is £9,250 per year. These fees are regulated by the UK government and are therefore subject to changes in government policy.
If you are studying an undergraduate course, postgraduate pre-registration course or postgraduate research course over more than one academic year then your tuition fees may increase in subsequent years in line with Government regulations or UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) published fees. More information can be found in our terms and conditions under student fees regulations.
International students
Our tuition fee for International/EU students starting full-time study in 2024/25 is £18,155, which includes an annual placement supplement of £1,500.
Financial support for home/EU students
How tuition fees work, student loans and other financial support available.
Additional course costs
This link allows you to view estimated costs associated with the main activities on specific courses. These are estimates and, as such, are only an indication of additional course costs. Actual costs can vary greatly depending on the choices you make during your course.
Additional costs for Paramedic science courses (PDF, 332.7KB)Legal information
Any offer of a place to study is subject to your acceptance of the University’s Terms and Conditions and Student Regulations.
