The University of Pittsburgh at Bradford recently announced it is working with the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh to provide a new, four-year emergency medicine degree on the Bradford campus. This is great news for students and for rural health care!
Students in the emergency medicine program will be Pitt-Bradford students for all four years, paying a lower Pitt-Bradford tuition and receiving Pitt-Bradford scholarships. Like all Pitt-Bradford students, they will earn a degree from the University of Pittsburgh.
Emergency medicine students will spend their first two years of college taking generalized college classes in basic subjects, as well as a four-credit course to become an emergency medical technician.
If accepted into the emergency medicine program, students will spend their junior year completing and obtaining their paramedic certification and gaining experience outside of the lab and classroom alongside emergency medical professionals. Senior year will be spent taking courses in critical care medicine and other program-related courses as well as completing graduation requirements.
According to the University of Pittsburgh, about 25% of graduates from its School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences’ emergency medicine program go on to work in the field of emergency medicine. Another 25% of graduates obtain the degree to prepare for medical school.
Learn more about the program here
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