Paramedic education in Qatar as seen by academics from Turkey

Abstract

Prehospital emergency health services play an important role in reducing mortality and morbidity by providing the necessary medical interventions at the scene and during patient transportation to hospital. The effectiveness of prehospital health services depends greatly on having a sufficient number of an appropriately trained professional workforce and vehicles always ready to rapidly respond to any medical and trauma-related emergency. Most countries around the world have some form of prehospital system employing paramedics in the broad sense of the term, but their required level of education and resources available to them varies greatly. In this article, we will present our observations from a visit conducted in January 2020 to Hamad Medical Corporation Ambulance Service and the then called College of the North Atlantic Qatar, with a focus on paramedic education and describe how it compares to Turkey.