Degree Structure

Year 1 - Peninsula Campus

Year 1 is the standard entry pathway. It aims to provide adequate preparatory coursework for students to enter the professional phase of the degree in Year 2.

Year 2 & 3 - Peninsula Campus

B.Emerg Health (Pmed) accelerated entry pathway. The standard entry and accelerated entry pathways are integrated in Years 2 and 3 and students enrolled in both the entry pathways are taught together.

All students entering through the B.Emerg Health (Pmed) accelerated entry pathway will be required to attend the intensive one week preparatory module “Professional Transition Program” to be conducted in the week immediately preceding the commencement of the normal university teaching year. Attendance is compulsory and no exemptions will be given.

A Thematic Approach

There are five themes which provide a continuity of approach across units and serve to link these units to professional practice. Following is a brief description of these five themes and their relationship to the units.

Theme 1: Personal and Professional Development

This theme is represented in second year by BEH2011 Foundations of Professionalism in Paramedic Practice, which will introduce the concepts of professionalism and of cultural competence in general and as they relate to the Paramedic and the field of Community-Based Emergency Health (CBEH). This theme is represented in third year by BEH3012  Development of Leadership and the Clinical Mentor, which will introduce the attributes of an effective leader and develop beginning skills as a clinical mentor.

Theme 2: Population Health and Society

This theme is represented in second year by BEH2021 Population aspects of CBEH which will provide a framework of inquiry, allowing analysis of the emergency aspects of public health, primary health care, and rural health in the setting of the national health, emergency health and research priorities. This theme is represented in third year by BEH3022  Contemporary Challenges in CBEH, which will examine issues such as the politics of health, funding, health promotion, service integration, and change in the setting of CBEH.

Theme 3: Foundations of the Paramedic Clinician

This theme is represented in second year by BEH2031 Foundations of Paramedic Clinical Practice and BEH2041 Foundations of Emergency Health Issues through the Lifespan. This theme is represented in the third year by BEH3032 Paramedic Management of Critical Care Specialty Situations, and will be augmented by supervised clinical placements in unit BEH3042  Paramedic Clinical Practice 5 – Advanced Life Support, which will involve placements in ambulance services and critical care units of hospitals. These two units will also include simulation scenarios to integrate the clinical skills and further develop students’ clinical problem solving and decision-making processes to the levels expected of graduate paramedics.

Theme 4: Community-based Emergency Health (CBEH)

CBEH in integrated health and emergency systems is represented in second year by BEH2011, which will also introduce a framework for analysing the history, structure, drivers, and potential future of emergency health systems, with an international perspective. In the third year this theme explores integrated health and emergency systems and is represented by BEH3012, which will introduce a framework for understanding and contributing to the prevention and management of mass casualty situations, with an international perspective.

Theme 5: Science, Knowledge and Evidence

This theme is represented in second year by BEH2021, which will introduce the principles of the scientific method and of evidence-based practice in the setting of CBEH. This theme is represented in third year by BEH3022, which will expand the attributes of professionalism, research and evidence-based practice and will introduce the principles of quality, clinical audit, clinical practice guidelines and research and evaluation in the setting of local, national and international CBEH.