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Where a paramedic in emergency responses can go next

12 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a paramedic in emergency responses already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

Paramedics in emergency responses provide emergency care to sick, injured, and vulnerable persons in emergency medical situations, before and during transport to a medical facility. They implement and oversee the transfer of the patient in connection with transport. They provide assistance in acute situations, implement life-saving emergency measures, and monitor the performance of the transportation process. As allowed by national law they may also provide oxygen, certain drugs, the puncture of peripheral veins and infusion of crystalloid solutions and perform endotracheal intubation if needed for the immediate prevention of threats for the life or health of an emergency patient.

Also known as emergency medical technician, paramedic practitioner, ambulance paramedic, expert paramedic, emergency response paramedic, paramedic, EMT, specialist paramedic.

Technicians and associate professionals 83 skills on file 12 career moves 2 above 60% overlap Closest: healthcare assistant, 68%

Fig. 2 · Career map 6 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
healthcare assistant 68% covered emergency ambulance driver 60% covered dental hygienist 59% covered physiotherapy assistant 59% covered dental technician 55% covered pharmacy assistant 55% covered paramedic in emergency re… You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 6 nearest destinations from paramedic in emergency responses, each one a link to that move’s record. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a paramedic in emergency responses already covers. All 12 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.

Table 3

Table 3 · What the job itself asks for

A paramedic in emergency responses needs 74 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.

Required skill Area
  • administer medication in emergency assisting and caring
  • brief hospital staff communication, collaboration and creativity
  • defibrillation health and welfare
  • intravenous infusion health and welfare
  • intubation health and welfare
  • manage patients with acute illnesses assisting and caring
  • sociology applied to paramedical science social sciences, journalism and information
  • stages of normal development social sciences, journalism and information
  • adapt to emergency care environment communication, collaboration and creativity
  • disorders of vital functions health and welfare
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a paramedic in emergency responses does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

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Paramedic in emergency responses is filed under Technicians and associate professionals, ISCO major group 3. The full index lists all ten groups.

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How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a paramedic in emergency responses’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.