Hilary MacQueen

Head of Department of Life, Health and Chemical Sciences, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK

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Hands off: can paramedics be educated at a distance?

What about using distance teaching for emergency care? This area too is developing, and now has a small, but growing, evidence base. Stansfield and colleagues (2001) used distance teaching for medical...

Open University awards in paramedic sciences

So what can the OU offer to people in the emergency care area? It might seem counterintuitive to teach such a hands-on subject at a distance, but the OU achieves this by entering into partnerships...