Advanced Care Paramedic - Current Academic Year

A 45 Week Ontario College Graduate Certificate Program
Program Code: ADP1
Campus Code: LC (LC - London)
January Admission
Academic Calendars available at www.fanshawec.ca/academicdates

Contact

School of Health Sciences:  519-452-4207

Program Description

This full time graduate program will build upon the knowledge and experience of currently practicing Paramedics to prepare graduates who are able to deliver an expanded set of controlled medical acts to patients suffering from serious medical and traumatic emergencies. Utilizing advanced assessment, critical thinking, and decision-making skills, the Advanced Care Paramedic is able to perform invasive therapeutic interventions to manage life-threatening situations in the pre-hospital environment.

To achieve these outcomes, students will participate in interactive and challenging classroom, laboratory, hospital clinical and field placement learning environments. Hospital clinical placement will have the students developing their skills and knowledge in acute care areas (e.g. adult emergency, intensive care, obstetrics, operating room and pediatric emergency). Due to the invasive nature of the skill sets being learned, class size will be limited and student-faculty ratios will be small.

University Transfer Credits and Degree Completion

For information concerning the Degree Pathways for this program visit www.fanshawec.ca/degreepathways. 

Applicant Selection Criteria

Where the number of eligible applicants exceeds the available spaces in the program, the Applicant Selection Criteria will be:

1. Preference for Permanent Residents of Ontario.
2. Receipt of Application by May 1st. 
3. Achievement in the Admission Requirements.
4. Achievement in a Pre-Admission Theoretical Preparedness Test with at least a minimum of 70%.

First Aid/Basic Rescuer Certificates

Applicants who accept admission to the program will be required to possess a Basic Rescuer course certificate - Basic Life Support (BLS) for Healthcare Providers (C) in accordance with the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada Canadian Guidelines for CPR, VALID FOR THE DURATION OF THE PROGRAM.  Note: CPR certification expires after one year regardless of certifying body.  If certification expires during the program, the student must renew and provide documentation to the Program Co-ordinator within one month from the time of expiration.  Failure to do so will result in removal from the clinical component of the program of study and progression to the next level will be denied.

Evidence of Good Health

Applicants who accept admission to the program must possess good health and must present written evidence of this as a condition of registration. This will include a medical review, complete immunization and T.B. Test (and a Chest X-ray if the T.B. Test is positive). 

Pre-Clinical/Placement Condition

In order to ensure high standards and quality educational offerings which will permit students maximum opportunities to achieve learning objectives, Fanshawe College reserves the right to place students in an agency or combination of agencies it determines to be appropriate.  While every effort is made to maximize use of local agencies, there is sometimes a need to place students outside of the London area for some programs or portions of programs.  Accordingly, an offer of admission to the Advanced Care Paramedic program is subject to the condition that the student must be prepared for the possibility of assignment to experiential learning outside of the area, and for the possibility of having to relocate, at the student's own expense, for all or a portion of this experience.  Students are responsible for all costs associated with clinical/field placement (including volunteer hours).

Police Record Check and Vulnerable Sector Screening

As a condition of admission to this program, students will be required to have a Police Record Check and Vulnerable Sector Screening, including a check of the Pardoned Sexual Offenders Database, prior to the first day of class.  The College does not review or use this information, however, the College must ensure that students who are admitted to the program are prepared to meet an important and standard condition for placement.  Most agencies will require students to produce the results of a recent screening.  This documentation must be valid for the duration of the program.  Applicants should be aware that certain criminal convictions for which pardons have not been received may or may not permit placement in these agencies.  In the latter cases, program completion will not be possible.  Further information concerning this admission condition will be available in early May at http://www.fanshawec.ca/registration.    Any questions regarding the Police Record Check and Vulnerable Sector Screening may be directed to the Academic Manager of the School of Health Sciences of the College.

Other Information

• Terms are normally 15 weeks unless otherwise stated under Campus Codes and Intakes and at www.fanshawec.ca/academicdates.