
Emergency Medical Technician Paramedic
Associate Degree Program
The paramedic provides advanced pre-hospital emergency care under medical command authority to acutely ill or injured patients and transports patients by ambulance or other appropriate emergency vehicles. As a paramedic, you will demonstrate: an awareness of abilities and limitations in providing emergency medical services, the ability to communicate with people and the capacity to make sound decisions while under stress. The paramedic program prepares you to assess and clinically manage a patient suffering a trauma or medical emergency, lead a team, direct and coordinate the transport of a patient while communicating with a medical command authority.
Upon successful completion of this program, you will be eligible to sit for the national registry of emergency medical technicians paramedic exam.
Academically ready students can apply to the program following the guidelines of the Allied Health competitive admission process. Interested applicants should review the information provided here and contact their program advisor for application requirements.
This program is offered at the Dover campus.
What You Can Do
In this program, you will gain the knowledge and skills to prepare you for positions such as:
- Emergency paramedic
- Flight paramedic
- Critical care paramedic
What You Will Learn
Program Graduate Competencies
The Program Graduate Competencies listed below identify the major learning goals related to your specific program of study and identify the knowledge and skills you will have when you graduate to be successful in your chosen field.
- Perform all psychomotor Paramedic skills in the National Emergency Medical Services Education Standards consistent with acceptable practice for an entry level paramedic.
- Conduct complete, accurate and timely patient assessments to include history and physical exam, and communicate findings.
- Interpret assessment findings in order to accurately identify a differential diagnosis and integrate pathophysiologic principles and legal responsibilities to formulate a treatment plan.
- Effectively perform the role of Team Leader to include: timely decision making, effective resource utilization, implementing appropriate plan of action for a given situation, adapting the plan to changing conditions change and communicate.
- Assess a scene or situation in order to identify threats to operating safely.
- Apply communication and ethical decision making skills required for an entry-level paramedic.
- Exhibit professional affective behavior.
- Function effectively as an entry level paramedic in the pre-hospital working environment in the roles of Team Leader and Team Member.
Core Curriculum Competencies
The Core Curriculum Competencies listed below identify what you will be able to do as a graduate, regardless of your program of study. You will acquire these core competencies through general education courses and program-specific coursework. You will be expected to use relevant technology to achieve these outcomes:
- Apply clear and effective communication skills.
- Use critical thinking to solve problems.
- Collaborate to achieve a common goal.
- Demonstrate professional and ethical conduct.
- Use information literacy for effective vocational and/or academic research.
- Apply quantitative reasoning and/or scientific inquiry to solve practical problems.
Contact Dover:
Chris Hainsworth
Department Chair, Instructor,
and Program Advisor
chainswo@dtcc.edu
(302) 857-1734
The Delaware Technical Community College paramedic program is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs (www.caahep.org) upon the recommendation of the Committee on Accreditation of Educational Programs for the Emergency Medical Services Professions(CoAEMSP).
Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs
(727) 210-2350
www.caahep.org
To contact CoAEMSP:
(214) 703-8445
www.coaemsp.org
- Programs of Study
- Accounting
- Advertising Design
- Agribusiness Management
- Architectural Engineering Technology
- Automotive Technician Studies
- Automotive Technology
- Aviation Maintenance Technology
- Bachelor of Science in Education
- Bachelor of Science in Nursing
- Baking and Pastry Skills Certificate
- Baking and Pastry Skills Studies
- Biological Sciences
- Biotechnology
- Building Automation Systems Option
- Business Administration Transfer Option
- Cardiovascular Sonography
- Chemical Process Operator
- Chemical Process Operator Certificate
- Chemical Process Operator Studies
- Chemistry
- Chemistry Math Concentration
- Civil Engineering Technology
- Civil Transfer Option
- Communications
- Computer Aided Drafting Design Technology
- Computing and Information Science
- Construction Management
- Cooking Certificate
- Correctional Officer Certificate
- Criminal Justice
- Culinary Arts
- Dental Hygiene
- Design Engineering Mechanical
- Diagnostic Medical Sonography
- Diesel Technology
- Drug Alcohol Counseling
- Drug Alcohol Counseling Certificate
- Early Care and Education Birth to Second Grade
- Early Childhood Development
- Early Childhood Studies
- Electrical and Computer Engineering Transfer Option
- Electromechanical Engineering Technology
- Electronics Engineering Tcy
- Electronics Engineering Technology Instrumentation Option
- Elementary Education
- Emergency Medical Technician Paramedic
- Emergency Medical Technician Paramedic Certificate
- Energy Management
- English
- English as a Second Language Certificate
- Entrepreneurship
- Entrepreneurship Certificate
- Environmental Engineering Technology
- Exercise Science
- General Airframe Maintenance Certificate
- General Business
- General Powerplant Maintenance Certificate
- General Studies
- Geographic Information Systems Technology
- Health Information Management
- Histotechnician
- Homeland Security and Emergency Management
- Human Services
- Information Technology and Networking
- Instruction, Design, and Technology Certificate
- Kitchen Skills Studies
- Law Enforcement Option
- Legal Studies
- Management
- Marketing
- Math Secondary Education
- Mathematics
- Mechanical Engineering Technology
- Medical Assistant
- Medical Assistant Studies
- Medical Laboratory Technician
- Middle-Level Math Education
- Multimedia
- Nuclear Medicine
- Nursing
- Occupational Therapy Assistant
- Office Administration
- Paraeducator
- Paralegal Certificate
- Photo Imaging
- Physical Therapist Assistant
- Practical Nursing Studies
- Production Agriculture
- Radiologic Technology
- Refrigeration Heating AC
- Refrigeration Heating AC Studies
- Renewable Energy Solar
- Respiratory Care
- Science
- Science Education Chemistry Physics
- Social Science
- Surgical Technology
- Turf and Ornamental Horticulture
- Veterinary Technology
- Registration
- Academic Calendar
- Transfer Options
- International Education
- Earning College Credit in High School
- Instructional Technology & CCIT
- Catalog/Student Handbook