Paramedical Sciences has served as a lateral aid to the medical science, in terms of diagnosis and treatment of diseases. Their primary role is to provide advanced pre-hospital medical care to the patients. A paramedic can be defined as a person who works in a healthcare field in an auxiliary capacity to a physician. They are specially trained medical technicians certified to provide a wide range of emergency medical services. With the advent of technological development of medical sciences, several invasive and non-invasive tools were designed, that reported a sudden upsurge of trained paramedical manpower for the operation of these technical inventions in medical sciences. Even though they play a crucial role in delivering health care, their contribution went un-noticed in terms of setting up a separate Council/Governing body, with specified guidelines/regulations to maintain a uniform high quality standard of training and education of paramedics all over the nation and register qualified personnel for the free practice of the profession.
There is an increasing demand for paramedics professionals both in India and abroad. Paramedical offers numerous courses for students after class 12th. Students who have passed Class 12 in Science with Biology are eligible to join paramedical courses.
Duration - Three to Four years
Duration – One to three years
Duration – Six months to two years.
These paramedical courses train a student in specialised fields such as X-Ray technology, dialysis etc. Below is the comprehensive list of areas that comes under the umbrella of Paramedical courses.