Our mission is to educate students in the profession of Paramedicine, thereby enabling
them to provide the highest level of prehospital care, professionalism, and leadership.
Our students have a high success rate on the NREMT cognitive and psychomotor exams.
Graduates receive BLS, ACLS, and PALS certificates.
Why paramedicine?
The Paramedicine program provides students with the resources to help them succeed
and move forward with their academic careers. Not only do all of our full-time faculty
and program director continue to work as providers in the field, but our students
also have the opportunity to gain hands-on experience through partnerships with local
EMS agencies, fire departments, local operating rooms, and even OSU football!
This program is very time-intensive. Students may be able to complete this program
while working full time. However, it is advised to plan far ahead in order to ensure
you have enough time to complete all of the required tasks of the program. The entire
degree program is 74 credit hours. Most students are eligible to sit for the National
Registry exams after completing around 47 credit hours of core course work. The core
paramedic courses can be completed in as little as 16 months.
OSU-OKC has clinical contracts with many agencies across the state. We do shifts with
hospitals, fire departments, EMS agencies, OSU football games, and other facilities
here on our campus. If you are a distance learner, contact us to see if we have agreements
with agencies in your area. If we do not, just let us know what agencies you would
like to work with and we can get an agreement set up.
During clinicals, the Clinical Coordinator is available 24/7 to assist students with clinical concerns. Many of the hospital clinicals
will have an OSU-OKC clinical instructor available to them during the entire shift.
OSU-OKC uses Fisdap to schedule all clinical (hospital) and field (shifts). Fisdap
is an online scheduling tool that each student is required to purchase prior to the
start of class. All clinical and field shifts are scheduled by week 3 of the semester.
Students are able to select the shifts that best meet their own personal or work schedules.
A complete listing of our clinical requirements are listed in the enrollment packet.
In order to become a paramedic, you must first be a certified and licensed EMT. However,
there is a small grace period where you can enter the paramedic program even though
you have not yet passed your NREMT exam. Students may enter Paramedic Care 1 with
successful completion of an EMT program but do not yet have their EMT certification.
In this case, the student must successfully obtain their EMT certification in order
to successful pass and complete Paramedic Care 1.
Interested applicants that are already a nurse, respiratory therapist, physician,
EMT-I, AEMT, or military medic, may request advanced placement within the program.
These requests are reviewed on a case-by-case basis by the program director.
Our online/hybrid paramedic courses begin each fall around the third week of August!
This is a 17-month long program that begins in August and will be completed December
of the following year. Enrollment for fall courses usually open towards the end of
March.
Our next traditional (in-class) paramedic courses begin each spring. This is a 17-month
long program that begins in January and will be completed May of the following year.
Enrollment for spring courses usually open towards the end of October.