Graduates are qualified for professional registration with the Health Professions Council of South Africa as an Emergency Care Practitioner (Paramedic). Students are equipped to become competent in providing pre-hospital emergency care to the critically ill or injured patient. They receive training in basic, intermediate and advanced techniques in order to provide advanced life support.

Type: Undergraduate diploma

Duration: full time 3 years

Compulsory Subjects

First Year Subjects:

• Emergency Medical Care


• Medical rescue


• Emergency service technology


• Anatomy and physiology


• Basic sciences

Second Year Subjects:

• Emergency Medical Care


• Medical rescue


• Psycho-psychiatric emergency care


• Emergency service communication


• Primary health care


• Physiology

Third Year Subjects:

• Emergency Medical Care


• Medical rescue


• Primary health care


• Emergency service administration


• Pharmacology


• General pathology

Careers: Emergency Rescue Official.

Source: www.cput.ac.za

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