BC Ambulance Service (BCAS) is committed to steadily enhancing the professional skills of paramedics and introducing new programs to help attract and retain qualified employees. One of the ways the organization is working to support this goal is through the Emergency Medical Assistants Education Fund, an over $5 million dollar bursary program established by the Ministry of Health Services in September 2007.
Designed to improve the recruitment and retention of paramedics in rural and remote communities and positively impact patient care, the fund is available to Primary Care Paramedic or Advanced Care Paramedic students who are enrolled in an approved full or part-time Emergency Medical Assistant program, or will be accepted for a program beginning September 1, 2008 or later.
Further information on the program is available on the Justice Institute of BC website.
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