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Paramedic

Northern’s two-year Paramedic program will train you for a thrilling career on the front lines of emergency care. And you’ll graduate with the skills you need to provide life-saving interventions - at the scene of an accident. The curriculum focuses on leadership and communication - along with core

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Paramedic

PROGRAM INFORMATION

Academic Year

2024 - 2025

Credential

Ontario College Diploma

Program Delivery

Full - Time

Duration

2 Years

Length

4 Semesters

Program Code

H099 (PC) - Timmins Campus

DESCRIPTION

On the front lines of emergency care.

Northern’s two-year Paramedic program will train you for a thrilling career on the front lines of emergency care. And you’ll graduate with the skills you need to provide life-saving interventions - at the scene of an accident. The curriculum focuses on leadership and communication - along with core courses in fitness, ethics, anatomy, physiology, pathology and pharmacology.

And in a risk-free lab setting you’ll practice responding to calls based on real-life scenarios. What makes Northern even more unique is that there are paramedics professionals working out of the same building as where you’re learning, so you can gain first-hand experience watching them in action. In support of your gradual transition to practicing paramedics, you’ll eventually join real ambulance calls as an observer. And then take on an official placement with one of over 30 emergency service partners - including hospital emergency and maternity wards, 911 dispatch, and long-term care facilities.

CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

  • Paramedic
  • Employed by private ambulance services, hospitals, fire departments, and government agencies.

VOCATIONAL LEARNING OUTCOMES

  1. Communicate and interact effectively and appropriately with patients and others.
  2. Assess patients using relevant theory and practices and in compliance with current legislation, regulations, standards, and best practice guidelines.
  3. Establish patients’ treatment and transport priorities based on assessment findings.
  4. Implement preventive and therapeutic patient management strategies to maintain and promote patients well-being in compliance with current legislation, regulations, standards, and best practice guidelines.
  5. Integrate and perform delegated controlled medical acts in a simulated, clinical, and field setting.
  6. Evaluate in an ongoing manner, the effectiveness of patient management strategies used and adapt or change strategies to provide optimal care for patients.
  7. Report and document patient information completely, accurately, and in a timely manner, in compliance with current legislation, regulations, standards, and applicable policies and procedures in a simulated, clinical, and/or field setting.
  8. Ensure personal safety and contribute to the safety of partners, patients, and others.

Program Outline | March 2024

Paramedic

  1. Ensure the operational safety, and preparedness of an ambulance and its equipment and operate an ambulance-type vehicle in a simulated setting.
  2. Collaborate with a broad range of personnel such as first responders, paramedics, emergency services personnel, health care professionals, and other allied health care workers.
  3. Integrate and meet legal, ethical, and professional responsibility while providing optimal care for patients.

PROGRAM COURSES

The following reflects the planned course sequence for full-time offerings of the program. Programs at Northern College are delivered using a variety of instruction modes. Courses may be offered in the classroom or lab, entirely online, or in a hybrid mode which combines classroom sessions with virtual learning activities.

| Semester 1 | Semester 1 | Hours | |

Source: https://www.northerncollege.ca/uploads/2025/08/Paramedic-2024.pdf