Curriculum Development for Three Year’s Bachelor’s Degree in Emergency Care

One of the world’s highest populated country India, has an uneven and inaccessible EMS system throughout the country. Reasons could be many among which lack of centralized body which provides EMS guidelines, central accessible single emergency number to call in case of emergency and inequity of care provided by pre-hospital care providers are the major ones. Variability in EMS education by different service providers is giving right to inappropriately trained proffessionals to do the most priviledged work of saving lives. This brings our attention towards having a centralized and standardized EMS educational guidelines in the country. The goal of this study is to develop a centralized and standardized core curriculum for Bachelor’s degree in emergency care. Upcoming students and utlimately pre-hospital care providers should have a same and equal knowledge depending upon their level of studies to develop equity of care. To come up with a desired curriculum as per the current EMS needs in India, curriculum of 11 different universities and colleges from all around the world were studied thoroughly and systematically. These curriculums were publicly available on university or college websites. Using deductive content analysis courses which fits best as per global standards and local scenarios were listed and included in the final curriculum. Courses that are included in the final curriculum are kept under seven different categories which are foundation courses, core EMT courses, supportive courses, proficient courses, optional courses, clinical rotation, and bachelor’s thesis. These categories further have subcategories which involve specific courses in each category. This curriculum is designed and developed to build confidence and skills in pre-hospital care providers and to increase student retention and goal achievement. In future with government involvement another milestone of having lincensed paramedics in India can also be achieved