As paramedicine education is still progressing as an established tertiary institution qualification, it is yet to gain credibility as a scientific discipline. Pertinent to this impasse is whether...
While in clinical practice during second-year placement, the lead author, a third-year student paramedic at the time of writing, attended a 49-year-old palliative care patient, Mr Smith, who was in...
The return rate of 26% was small so cannot be said to be representative and this inevitably influences the reliability of the findings and means the findings cannot be generalised. The evaluation was...
The workshop was delivered by the first author, who has considerable expertise in the topic of self-harm including the delivery of educational interventions in this subject area. The intervention was...
This study aimed to evaluate a teaching tool, established in other disciplines, for developing students' clinical reasoning skills.
The efficacy of any professional training programme depends on educators being able to prepare students for the future. Paramedicine in 2030 will not be the role students sign up for today...
What are student paramedics' views on the importance of including a placement within general practice as part of their degree on their learning and development as an autonomous paramedic?.
Purposeful convenience sampling was used to recruit student paramedics at the College of Paramedics' UK National Student Conference and one UK higher education institution between November 2018 and...
Qualitative methodology was employed to explore the views and experiences of paramedic students undertaking a diploma in higher education to become a qualified paramedic. This approach supports...
Paramedic and outdoor recreation students have similar imperatives to practise first response skills in austere environments. Undergraduate paramedic students—traditionally embedded in the health...
Searching the key words ‘reflection AND paramedics’ yielded very few results, which focused mainly on ‘how to’ guidance on reflection. The literature search was therefore widened to encompass other...
The scenario that we have been using now, which has the best and highest impact on our students is: ‘92-year-old female patient, not alert and unresponsive’..