Paramedic Science Bachelor of Science (with Honours) - BSc (Hons)

This dynamic course develops your clinical knowledge and confidence, equipping you with the skills needed for emergency and unscheduled care while ensuring you meet the requirements of the modern ambulance service and expanding paramedic role. With a high employment rate, the course takes you from novice to expert over three years of study, using a blended approach to learning so theory clearly meets practice. It also builds your clinical reasoning, critical thinking and leadership skills.

Course accreditation/endorsement

The course is recognised by the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC). On successful completion of your course, you will be eligible to register as a paramedic.

Facilities and specialist equipment

* Two clinical-training ambulances

* Fully immersive simulation area including: assisted living space; industrial space with scaffolding; hoarder’s room; nightclub area; social deprivation room (drug den); standard lounge; cluttered bedroom

* Immersive suite with cameras

* Skills unit

* Community 'home'

* Full-sized ward.

Our simulation facilities are close enough to real life to be used by local providers for training purposes.

Career-powered links

The course has been developed in partnership with the East of England Ambulance Service, an NHS Trust serving six million people over 7,500 square miles.

Your Student Experience

Gain simulated and real-life supervised experience of the situations you will attend as a qualified paramedic.

Complete 750 hours of placement learning a year, spending around 50% of your time in supervised supported practice so you experience the full 24-hour working pattern and learn to work as part of the wider healthcare team.

Placement settings include at ambulance control; GP surgeries; charities for the homeless; hospice; or hospital, where you may be based in ER, theatres, paediatrics and maternity.

Expand your experience through field trips to relevant locations including the Ambulance Service Hazardous Area Response Team (HART) at Melbourn, Cambridge, and an RTC (vehicle) extrication with Bedfordshire Fire & Rescue Service.

Explore service improvement with your final-year research project and present your findings at an annual conference.

Our course groups are small so you are able to build supportive relationships with other students and your academic team

Our Bedford campus itself is a small, thriving academic community where academic staff get to know you well.