Paramedic

Paramedics are often the first people on the scene of an emergency. They balance compassion with critical decision-making skills and the ability to take command in a crisis and help save lives. This program offers the opportunity to be a part of immersive, experiential learning environments.

What You’ll Learn

• Prepare to respond to emergencies and provide life support measures in simulated and clinical placement situations ranging from urgent to emergent care situations.
• Learn to administer care in a variety of environments associated with paramedicine, in the field or in a moving ambulance.
• Learn to drive an ambulance through simulated technology as well as actual, supervised road time.
• Experience the job first hand during 450 hours of supervised ride-out in an ambulance.

The curriculum is continuously reviewed and enhanced by instructors who work full time in the field as members of the allied health care team and are experts in their field of study, including basic, advanced, and critical care paramedics. Real-world emergency scenarios come to life in the classroom as faculty relate their experiences on the job to that week’s lesson. Professors come from across the province and have a depth of experience, bringing the real world of paramedicine into the classroom.

Graduates will find opportunities working as:

• Primary care paramedics in the ambulance system in Ontario, nationally or abroad.
• Emergency medical responders with municipal fire departments.
• Private ambulance transfer-service members.
• Health and safety educators in industrial settings.

Grads are qualified to write the Advanced Emergency Medical Care Assistant (A-EMCA) exam offered by the Ministry of Health.