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Course Coverage
Imagine being the first on the scene to save a life, the critical link between chaos and calm. This Work-Study Diploma course aims to equip trainees with deepened and broadened skillsets as required by the changing pre-hospital emergency care landscape. As a paramedic, you’ll harness your medical skills and quick thinking to provide urgent care in high-stress situations. Graduates take on the roles as crew leaders in emergency ambulances, perform patient care independently and institute life saving measures which can include procedures and medications.
Prerequisite:
- Able to work well with others in a team environment
- Able to work long hours under time contraints
- Possess physical mobility, mental agility and the ability to react quickly
- Possess attentiveness to safety, dealing with non-routine situations
- Able to show empathy, interaction with strangers
- Possess fine and gross psychomotor skills, sensor (Visual, hearing) ability, communication skills
Job Role:
A paramedic is a healthcare provider who leads a team to provide patient care in the pre-hospital settings.
The paramedic works under the direction and supervision of a physician who provides the clinical guidelines which underscores the scope that the paramedics can practice under his charge.
The work he/she performs includes the following:
- Maintain operational readiness
- Perform clinical assessment for different age groups (young, adult, geriatric)
- Manage trauma situations
- Manage medical conditions
- Manage special situations
- Perform administrative duties
- Engage in work improvement
- Supervise, train and mentor emergency medical technician and trainees
- Engage in professional learning and development
Training pattern:
Block Release (subject to changes) -- Trainees attend daily lessons
at ITE for a continuous period and then resume the next block of OJT at the
workplace.
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