Bsc Emergency Medical Science commencing Sept 2015

jimmy5694

I would advise anyone to do the 3yr Paramedic science degree in the UK because I think personally you will be more qualified then paramedics here in IRL for example UK Paramedics can cannulate, intubate, give more drugs (up to 35 if I can remember), use traction splints, tourniquet, insert chest drains, decompression needles and etc. In relation to patients contact students are on placement for hundreds of hours each year with LAS and its call after call to literally anything. Back to the point about drugs in a few years time UK paramedics could become independent prescriber's.The good thing about the degree is that there is a job waiting for you when you finish.

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/med/research/hsri/emergencycare/prehospitalcare/jrcalcstakeholderwebsite/guidelines

http://www.londonambulance.nhs.uk/working_for_us/paramedic_science_degrees.aspx

http://www2.gre.ac.uk/study/courses/ug/hea/b781

19hz

jimmy5694 wrote: »

I would advise anyone to do the 3yr Paramedic science degree in the UK because I think personally you will be more qualified then paramedics here in IRL for example UK Paramedics can cannulate, intubate, give more drugs (up to 35 if I can remember), use traction splints, tourniquet, insert chest drains, decompression needles and etc. In relation to patients contact students are on placement for hundreds of hours each year with LAS and its call after call to literally anything. Back to the point about drugs in a few years time UK paramedics could become independent prescriber's.The good thing about the degree is that there is a job waiting for you when you finish.

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/med/research/hsri/emergencycare/prehospitalcare/jrcalcstakeholderwebsite/guidelines

http://www.londonambulance.nhs.uk/working_for_us/paramedic_science_degrees.aspx

http://www2.gre.ac.uk/study/courses/ug/hea/b781

Good advice at the start...agreed.

Traction splints and tourniquets are also thought to UK Techs..

Think only CCPs do the ol chest drains..def haven't heard of UK Paras being able to do that?

Yup..paras will be able to do a paramedic prescriber course as of 2016...making them even more useful in primary care.

Def more jobs as a UK para in the UK..or indeed worldwide really.
LAS alone have 500 vacancies, ha but there is a reason for that!!

jimmy5694

19hz wrote: »

Good advice at the start...agreed.

Traction splints and tourniquets are also thought to UK Techs..

Think only CCPs do the ol chest drains..def haven't heard of UK Paras being able to do that?

Yup..paras will be able to do a paramedic prescriber course as of 2016...making them even more useful in primary care.

Def more jobs as a UK para in the UK..or indeed worldwide really.
LAS alone have 500 vacancies, ha but there is a reason for that!!

Yea students in year 2 are thought to do chest drains. I'm sure the whole thing with industrial action will be ironed out in time. Its pretty much lack of paramedics in the LAS that's why there are more places in university Greenwich and Hertfordshire.

Mycroft H

It's depressing watching the state of the system here. Hurry up UCD.

sjb25

Mycroft H wrote: »

It's depressing watching the state of the system here. Hurry up UCD.

Heard it will be sept 2016 before the UCD course will get going hurry up the NAS with the student paramedic panel more like:)

crackcrack30

jimmy5694 wrote: »

Yea students in year 2 are thought to do chest drains. I'm sure the whole thing with industrial action will be ironed out in time. Its pretty much lack of paramedics in the LAS that's why there are more places in university Greenwich and Hertfordshire.

20 para's a week walking off the job due to burnout has a lot to do with the 500 shortfall.


HSE (paramedic) school have no plans to close well into the foreseeable future....in fact a ramp up of thru-put is on the cards for 2015-16

sjb25

crackcrack30 wrote: »

20 para's a week walking off the job due to burnout has a lot to do with the 500 shortfall.


HSE (paramedic) school have no plans to close well into the foreseeable future....in fact a ramp up of thru-put is on the cards for 2015-16

O ramp away

Aaronlp5

Hi guys, I'm a leaving cert student and want to do graduate medicine. Would this course be good for an undergrad degree pre-medicine? I hope to one day specialize in emergency medicine.

jimmy5694

Aaronlp5 wrote: »

Hi guys, I'm a leaving cert student and want to do graduate medicine. Would this course be good for an undergrad degree pre-medicine? I hope to one day specialize in emergency medicine.

I would imagine it could, to be honest you need ask the university for advice on that, I do know with a paramedic degree here in the UK, paramedics work on HEMS with trauma doctors and one of my lecturers is currently doing research on how paramedics can fit into A&E is this research to do with a doctorate? no idea, however I do know you can go further.