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Master of Advanced Clinical Practice (Paramedicine Practitioner)

  • Masters (Coursework)

Our Master of Advanced Clinical Practice (Paramedicine Practitioner) will set you up to become an advanced clinical practitioner and a leader in the emerging paramedicine practitioner field.Our course provides experienced paramedics with a training program and pathway that leads to an expanded scope...

Key details

Degree Type
Masters (Coursework)
Course Code
H762
Intake Months
Mar

About this course

Our Master of Advanced Clinical Practice (Paramedicine Practitioner) will set you up to become an advanced clinical practitioner and a leader in the emerging paramedicine practitioner field.

Our course provides experienced paramedics with a training program and pathway that leads to an expanded scope of practice and career advancement opportunities, by meeting the necessary competencies for advanced paramedicine practice. You will be specifically trained to meet the requirements for admission to Fellowship of the Australasian College of Paramedic Practitioners*.

Are you an experienced paramedic keen to take your career to the next level?

The Master of Advanced Clinical Practice (Paramedicine Practitioner) gives you the knowledge to provide evidence-based paramedic practitioner expertise in the assessment, diagnosis and management of clinical conditions, and skills in the performance of appropriate procedures to provide advanced patient care. You'll graduate with key skills and strategies enabling you to effectively care for, educate, and engage and collaborate with patients, carers, communities, colleagues, and other health professionals.

By broadening your skills and expertise as an experienced paramedic, you will be ready to work as a paramedic practitioner in various primary care settings. The paramedic practitioner role is an innovative way of delivering healthcare to rural and regional communities, as you will provide complementary care to that provided by GPs and nurse practitioners, and will work with community health partners and allied health professionals to prevent and treat health problems.

The course has a strong focus on healthcare delivery to rural and regional communities.

Alternative course offerings

Once you complete the masters degree, if you wish (and pending meeting entry requirements), you'll have the opportunity to complete a period of research within your discipline to obtain an extended masters qualification - the Doctor of Advanced Clinical Practice (Paramedicine Practitioner). This extended masters will prepare you for leadership roles within the profession. You'll also have the option to exit from the masters program with a Graduate Certificate or Graduate Diploma, which will give you the additional skills required for future career progression within paramedicine but will not enable you to work as a paramedic practitioner.

Career pathways

The role of paramedic practitioner provides an important new career path for experienced paramedics who would like to work more sociable hours or provide more primary care to their communities, or who can no longer meet the physical demands of working on-road.

As a paramedic practitioner, you will be equipped to expand your clinical practice by conducting more comprehensive patient assessment, ordering and interpreting diagnostic tests and providing expanded health management in order to provide more complete episodes of care. As a paramedic practitioner you will possess the knowledge, skills and attitude to undertake practitioner roles within your healthcare field. You will be able to provide care complementary to that provided by GPs and nurse practitioners, particularly in regional and rural areas where collaborative models are being used to meet healthcare workforce shortfalls.

Into the future, paramedic practitioners are expected to play an important role in alternative rural health Models of Care proposed due to the medical workforce shortages in rural and remote areas. Upskilled paramedic practitioners will help fill the ongoing shortfall and play a vital role in healthcare in regional areas.

Course structure

The majority of your learning activities will take place via Deakin's award-winning Cloud Campus (online). Throughout the masters program, you'll be required to attend on-campus study intensives associated with five of the units, each of a five-day duration, which are held at the Warrnambool Campus. The intensives will include a mix of classroom activities (lectures, small group teaching, group activities) and practical skill sessions (clinical skill teaching, low and high fidelity clinical scenarios).

The course will be undertaken via Cloud Campus (online), with on-campus intensives at the Warrnambool Campus*. Students are responsible for all costs associated with attending the intensives (e.g. travel, accommodation).

*Intensives will be held prior to scheduled commencement of each Trimester.

To complete the Master of Advanced Clinical Practice (Paramedicine Practitioner) students must attain 12 credit points. Nine compulsory core units and two elective units. Students must pass all units including all components of units in the course.

All commencing Faculty of Health Undergraduate and Postgraduate course work students are required to complete HAI010 Academic Integrity in their first semester of study (0 credit point compulsory unit).

The course is only available on a part-time basis.