About Graduate Diploma Of Paramedicine in Federation University Australia
Go from a nurse to a paramedic in one year with the Graduate Diploma of Paramedicine.
The Graduate Diploma of Paramedicine aims to provide you with the appropriate knowledge, skills and values, to be effective in providing paramedical patient care. This patient care occurs in pre-hospital environments to those who are suffering a health crisis, whether this be traumatic, medical, surgical and/or psychological.
Career opportunities
- Access team paramedic
- Ambulance communications officer
- Ambulance rescue officer
- Emergency manager
- First aid instructor
- Paramedic
- Intensive care paramedic
- Non-emergency ambulance attendant
- Paramedic intern
- Retrieval paramedic
- Project officer
- Team manager
- Air ambulance paramedic
- Ambulance community officer
- Bicycle response paramedic
- Emergency services officer
- First aid officer
- Group manager
- MICA paramedic
- Paramedicine educator
- Rapid response paramedic
- Ski patroller
- Trainee ambulance officer
- Ambulance clinical instructor
- Extended care paramedic
- Flight paramedic
- Industrial paramedic
- Medical equipment sales representative
- Paramedic community support coordinator
- Policy advisor
- Researcher
- Special operations team rescue paramedic
The program will prepare graduates for entry into the paramedic discipline as beginning practitioners who are competent to practice in a variety of clinical settings.
Graduates will be eligible to apply for Graduate Entry Programs within Ambulance Victoria (AV) and Private Patient Transport Services. Graduates will also meet the requirements for employment with other pre-hospital and ambulance service employers throughout Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom (UK). Applicants are encouraged to discuss their employment options and locations of work with the relevant ambulance service.
The Ambulance Victoria website (www.ambulance.vic.gov.au/index) provides information about further education opportunities and career progression.
Ambulance Victoria has an Aboriginal employment pathway (cadetship) available. For more information please refer to the Ambulance Victoria website: http://www.ambulance.vic.gov.au/About-Us/Careers/Current-Vacancies/2015EOIAPC.html
Academic qualification equivalents
- Completion of an Australian bachelor degree or equivalent degree with specified minimum grades (or marks) in relevant subjects.
English language requirements (one of the below):
- IELTS: Overall 6.0 - 7.0 (no band less than 6.0)
- TOEFL iBT : 60 - 106 with minimums: Reading 19, Listening 20, Speaking 20, Writing 24
- PTE: Overall 50 - 73 (no band less than 58)
Federation University Australia Highlights
| Type |
Public |
| Campus setting |
Urban |
| Application portal |
Online |
| Academic calendar |
Semester-based |
| Intake Session |
Summer/winter |
| Application fees |
25 AUD |
| Financial aid |
Grants, scholarships, loans |
| English language proficiency score |
TOEFL or equivalent |
Federation University Average Tution Fees and Other Expenses
It is advised that applicants who intend to enrol at the institution set aside an expected budget for foreign students who wish to study in Australia. The typical college expenses are as follows:
The table below lists the fees that international students must pay for the 2020 academic year:
| Fees |
Undergraduate (AUD) |
| Tuition |
14,400 – 34,600 |
| Overseas Student Health Cover (OSHC) |
752 |
| Living cost (accommodation, food, transport, clothing, and entertainment |
20,290 |
| Total |
35,442 – 55,642 |
