Student Experience

What to Expect

The Advanced Care Paramedic (ACP) program at Algonquin College is a fully accredited program with Accreditation Canada. Upon completion, you will be eligible to take the Ontario Ministry of Health’s licensing exam. This license will give you the ability, through a medical director, to practice at a higher level of paramedicine, expand your opportunities within the profession, and increase your marketability to potential employers.

While in the program you will learn the skills, knowledge and attitudes required to utilize a variety of advanced skills such as oral tracheal intubation, access for fluid resuscitation and pharmacological interventions, advanced cardiac therapies, and multi-modal pain and sedation strategies.

Work Integrated Learning

Using high fidelity simulations in our simulation lab, which includes a mock apartment, alleyway, and convenience store you will be able to prepare your skills for the real world. You will perfect your skills in hospital and paramedic field practicums under the supervision of highly trained Advanced Care Paramedics and other health-care professionals. Unique learning opportunities within the program include an airway workshop, given by Emergency physicians from the Queensway Carleton Hospital, and an introductory knowledge of point-of-care ultrasound in the pre-hospital environment.