Hutchinson Community College and Area Vocational School

Course Syllabus

EM191 Paramedic I

YEAR: 2010-2011

CREDIT HOURS: 15.00

PREREQUISITES: None

COREQUISITES: None

COURSE NOTES:

The student must achieve an overall grade of C or higher at the end of the semester in order to proceed to subsequent semesters and graduation.

CATALOG COURSE DESCRIPTION:

Preparatory emergency medical science information and skills to include medical-legal considerations, communications, documentation, patient history gathering and patient assessment; demonstration and practice of psychomotor skills at component through scenario levels; clinical experience to allow application for theory and practice.

HCC INSTITUTION-WIDE OUTCOMES:

I.	Demonstrate the ability to think critically and make reasonable judgments by acquiring, analyzing, combining, and evaluating quantitative and non-quantitative information.
II.	Demonstrate the skills necessary to access and manipulate information through various technological and traditional methods.
III.	Demonstrate effective communication through writing and speaking.
IV.	Demonstrate effective interpersonal skills.

COURSE ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION:

A	-	93% - 100%
B	-	84% - 92%
C	-	75% - 83%
D	-	66% - 74%
F	-	0% - 65%

1. Attendance/participation 2. Skills demonstrations 3. Skills examinations 4. Performance reviews by medical director 5. Assessment centers 6. Clinical units 7. Field units and states 8. Protocol examinations 9. Field visitation summaries 10. Workplace competencies

ACCOMMODATIONS STATEMENT:

Any student who has a documented learning and/or physical disability and wishes to access academic accommodations (per the 1973 Rehabilitation Act and Americans with Disability Act) must contact the HCC Coordinator of Disability Services, at 665-3554, or Guidance and Counseling Office, Parker Student Union. The student must have appropriate documentation on file before accommodations can be provided.

ACADEMIC HONESTY:

Students who engage in academic dishonesty bring discredit upon Hutchinson Community College as well as themselves. HCC students are thus required to maintain honesty in their academic pursuits. The administrators and faculty at Hutchinson Community College require students to do the following:

1.	Submit examinations, themes, reports, drawings, laboratory notes and other work that represent the students' best efforts without cheating, plagiarizing, or misrepresenting.
2.	Provide all academic records such as transcripts and test scores that are free of falsification, forgery, or alteration.
3.	Refrain from participating in the academic dishonesty of any person.

Sanctions for violation:
Students suspected of engaging in academic dishonesty may be charged in writing by the instructor and be subject to failure of the work in question and/or failure and dismissal from the course in which the dishonesty occurs. Students failed and/or dismissed by an instructor from a course as a result of academic dishonesty will not be allowed to take a "W" for the course. Instructors may also recommend to the Dean of Instruction that such students be dismissed from the program and/or the institution.

Appeal:
Student charged with academic dishonesty have the right of appeal and are assured of due process by the institution through the Academic Appeal process.

INCOMPLETE GRADE:

Instructors may give a student a grade of Incomplete (I) under the following conditions:
1.	The student must initiate the request prior to the time final course grades are submitted to Records.
2.	The request must be made because of an emergency, illness or otherwise unavoidable life-event.
3.	The instructor must agree to the request before a grade of Incomplete can be submitted.
4.	A written contract between the instructor and student, signed by both, will document the work required and date needed to complete course work.
5.	If a student does not complete the course requirements within the time frame established by the instructor, a grade of "F" will be recorded on the student's transcript at the end of the next semester.

ACCREDITATION:

Kansas Board of Emergency Medical Services
Landon State Office Building
900 SW Jackson Street, Suite 1031
Topeka, Kansas 66612-1228
785-296-7296