Graduate Diploma of Community Paramedicine

Edith Cowan University

Designed to provide paramedics with the necessary knowledge and skills to undertake a career in community paramedicine working in urgent care nonurgent care and primary healthcare settingsThe course focuses on the clinical issues directly related to practice and develops a greater depth of understanding to enhance clinical decisionmaking and critical thinking Students will learn advancedlevel clinical knowledge to apply to their daily paramedical practice while at the same time learning advanced skills in evidencebased practiceThe 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 communityCourse learning outcomesCommunicate complex medical and paramedical knowledge research principles and methods to demonstrate an advanced level of extended care paramedicineApply cognitive technical and creative skills to investigate evaluate and synthesise complex ideas concepts and theories in authentic extended care Paramedicine contextsUse high level selfmanagement skills to initiate appraise and operate in complex and dynamic extended care Paramedicine professional environmentsCareer OpportunitiesGraduates of this program will be wellplaced to take on the leadership roles within paramedicinePossible future job titlesExtended Care Paramedic Advanced Care Paramedic Community Paramedic Specialist Paramedic Advanced Paramedic Site Paramedic Industrial Medic Industrial Paramedic Advanced Care Practitioner Paramedic Practitioner