Each course is made up of nationally recognised units of competency on the individual topics and skill areas you’ll study on your way to a career in pre-hospital care. Every unit carries its own assessment, and more advanced or clinically-focused units, such as those building toward paramedical and paramedic-level skills, may include several assessments to properly test your competency.
Your learning is structured as a sequence of units, allocated in order so your knowledge builds progressively, much like the real-world progression from entry-level roles into the paramedic pathway. Start each unit by reading through its assessment first. If a unit has more than one assessment, work through the one listed at the top of the sequence before moving on.
Assessments themselves are broken into sections, each covering a distinct topic within emergency healthcare, pre-hospital practice, or patient care. Question formats vary from single-sentence and multiple-choice responses through to short and long-form written answers. These reflect the range of clinical knowledge and practical judgement that paramedics and emergency responders need in the field.
To support you, each section includes hints pointing you toward where the answers can be found, whether that’s a specific chapter in your course materials or a set of recommended articles and subject-matter publications relevant to the topic. As you complete each unit, your assessment is submitted to your assigned trainer for marking and feedback, a process that mirrors the ongoing competency checks used throughout the paramedic pathway and broader emergency health care sector.
Australian Paramedical College is the largest pre-hospital emergency health care training provider in Australia. As part of your training at the College, we will provide you with up-to-date information on where to find emergency healthcare jobs online, who you should be targeting, and why.
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