PARAMEDIC PROGRAM

The Paramedic Program prepares you to achieve the highest level of certification for a prehospital provider. The program lasts approximately 16 months over four semesters and includes 12 months of didactics, skills lab sessions, and skills scenario evaluations over the first three academic semesters.

Semesters two and three include a clinical internship with an assigned hospital preceptor where you will start to apply the knowledge and skills that you learned in a live patient setting. The fourth semester is a field internship where you will ride with an EMS unit with an experienced paramedic preceptor to further build upon the assessment, management, and treatment skills developed during your classroom and clinical experiences and apply them to the out-of-hospital setting as a provider and team leader. At the conclusion of the program, you must be able to demonstrate, through testing and evaluation, the competencies and skills required of the entry-level Paramedic.

Course Design:

The design of this program is based on the Paramedic National Standard Curriculum. The program consists of four components of instruction: didactic, skills laboratory/scenarios, clinical internship, and capstone field internship. After successful completion of the four components, the student will meet with the program and medical directors to review and evaluate their terminal competencies in the cognitive, psychomotor, and affective learning domains.

Course Breakdown:

  • Classroom: 560 hours

  • Clinical Internship: 200 hours

  • Field Internship: 250 hours

  • College Credits: 27

Note: These hours are the minimum recommendations. Revisions to these hours may be required according to the student or course needs in order to achieve the competence of the program graduate.

 

Course Length:

The emphasis of paramedic education is based on the competence of the graduate, not the amount of education that they receive. The time involved in educating a paramedic student to an acceptable level of competence depends on many variables. The average paramedic program consists of 1000-1200 hours of instruction. Our program consists of a minimum of 1130 hours of instruction over approximately 16 months.

The course length may vary according to a number of factors including, but not limited to:

  • The student’s basic academic skills competence

  • Student motivation

  • The student’s prior emergency/healthcare experience

  • Prior academic achievements

  • Clinical / field / academic resources available

 
 
 

Tuition and Fees

  • Tuition to $12,500.00 ($3,125.00 per semester)

  • Books: $800 approx.

  • Uniforms: Polo $25, Quarter zip $75 

  • NREMT Cognitive Exam: $175

Quincy College Fees: 

  • Registration $120 per semester

  • Technology Fee $39 per credit

  • Student ID $30 one-time fee

  • Payment plans: FAFSA student loan-eligible