Ambulance Training Institute

The school is authorized by the president of the Normandy Regional Council to accommodate a class of 20 students, who can follow the training in complete and partial courses. It is headed by a director, approved by the president of the Normandy Region . It is responsible for the approvals and operating authorization of the school.

The IFA is attached to the CHU Caen Normandie which has care, research and teaching missions. It is subject to a double supervision:

• the Ministry of Health, through the DREETS  (Regional Directorate of the Economy, Employment, Labor and Solidarity) and the ARS   (Regional Health Agency) ,
• the Regional Council (since July 2005) .

AFNOR certifies that the CAEN University Hospital center has been judged to comply with the requirements for carrying out training activities.

certificate No. 2022/98983.1

Order of April 11, 2022 relating to training leading to the state ambulance diploma and the training conditions for ambulance auxiliaries

Order of June 10, 2021 laying down provisions relating to the authorization of paramedical training institutes and schools and the approval of their directors in application of articles R. 4383-2 and R. 4383-4 of the public health code

Order of April 21, 2007 relating to the operating conditions of paramedical training institutes

Since the decree of April 11, 2022 relating to training leading to the state ambulance diploma and the training conditions for ambulance auxiliaries, in-depth reflection has been initiated on the strategic issues of training and these developments have represented for our IFA an opportunity in the same way as the various regulatory changes concerning the organization of health.

The educational project formalizes our commitment by specifying the purposes and means of this training: it lays the foundations and directions of healthcare training, sets out the values ​​and concepts, specifies the resulting tools.

The acquisition of skills and the ability of students to adapt to developments while respecting an ethical framework motivate our action.

The IFA's missions focus on several axes:

• Initial and partial training;
  • reception, support, monitoring of each student;
  • development, implementation and evaluation of the educational project;
  • organization and management of theoretical teaching and clinical training;
  • responsibility for the evaluation, validation and certification system;
  • adaptation to the regulatory framework for schooling exemptions (organization of personalized complementary courses).
• Responsibility for the selection tests;
• Implementation of continuing training in line with regulatory changes.
• Support for research and document management;
• Promotion of training and professions;
• Seeking continuous improvement in the quality of the training provided and inclusion in a quality assurance approach (QUALIOPI);
• Student participation in institute projects, active representation in bodies;
• Development of cooperation actions with health establishments, networks and other training structures.

RNCP file

The State Ambulance Diploma certifies the skills required to practice the profession of ambulance driver: decree of April 11, 2022 relating to the training leading to the State Ambulance diploma and the training conditions of the paramedic auxiliary, appendix II

1. Establish appropriate communication to inform and support the patient and his entourage
2. Accompany the patient in his installation and his movements by mobilizing his resources and using the appropriate equipment
3. Implement hygiene and comfort care adapted to the patient's needs and situation
4. Assess the clinical state of the patient in his area of ​​​​expertise
5. Implement the care adapted to the patient's condition, in particular those relating to emergencies
6. Carry out the preparation, control and maintenance of the vehicle adapted to land medical transport in order to guarantee transport safety
7. Drive the vehicle suitable for land medical transport in compliance with traffic and road safety rules and in a manner appropriate to the patient's state of health
8. Use appropriate maintenance techniques for equipment and facilities, within their area of ​​expertise, taking into account the prevention of associated risks
9. Identify, report, process anomalies and malfunctions related to the maintenance of the vehicle, equipment and installations and ensure their traceability
10. Research, process, transmit relevant information to ensure the continuity and traceability of care and activities and transmit professional know-how
11. Organize and control its activity, cooperate within a multi-professional team and improve its practice as part of a quality / risk management approach

With regard to the law of February 11, 2005 for equal rights and opportunities, participation and citizenship of people with disabilities, the principles of non-discrimination and accessibility are applied to training.

A disability representative is in contact with all the paramedical training structures at the CAEN University Hospital. Concerned students can contact her via the address: pfp-sec-dir@chu-caen.fr

Vigilant point: 

There is no obligation for the student to communicate their disability situation to their training structure, either at the time of the competitive exam or during their studies.

The disability situation of a candidate or student is confidential, even if it is a secret shared between professionals of the training structure.

Training can be financed by regional and local partners such as the Regional Council, Skills Operators ( OPCO ) for employees, Pro transitions for employees other than auxiliary ambulance employees, etc.

Before entering a health or social training institute in Normandy, you must make sure of the method of financing your training and your resources for the duration of your training ( https://parcours-metier.normandie.fr/fss -to-train-in-health-and-social-careers )

You can also benefit from scholarships. Scholarship files are managed by the Crous de Normandie and scholarships are granted according to your financial situation ( https://www.crous-normandie.fr/bourses/faire-demande-de-bourse/videos-tutoriels/ ) .

The 2024-2025 cost is 3,500 euros.

The Normandy Region has decided to grant job seekers the remuneration of vocational training interns from the start of the school year in September 2022 . This remuneration is calculated from the hours of actual presence, up to €685 per month for a training course of 35 hours per week.

The criteria for receiving this remuneration are (cumulative criteria):

• Be registered and diligently follow AS, AES or Ambulance training provided in a Norman institute;
• Be a job seeker not compensated by Pôle emploi (registered or not with Pôle-emploi);
• Be out of the school system for more than 9 months;
• Benefit from funding for the educational cost of training by the Region .

A freephone number: 0 800 05 00 00 is at your disposal for any further information.

• Theoretical training of 15 weeks, 4 days and 3 hours (556 hours).
• 7-week clinical training (245 hours) spread over 3 internships.
• Annual leave , up to 2 weeks, is planned, and the dates are determined by the school management.

Subject to being admitted to follow the training under the conditions set by this decree, equivalences of skills, blocks of skills or partial or complete relief of certain training modules are granted to students holding the following titles or diplomas:

1. The State diploma of Caregiver (DEAS);
2. The State Diploma of Auxiliary Childcare (DEAP);
3. The Diploma of Medical Regulation Assistant (DARM);
4. The State Diploma of Educational and Social Support (DEAES);
5. The professional title of Family Life Assistant (AVF);
6. The professional title of Medico-Social Service Agent (ASMS);
7. The professional title of Delivery Driver on Light Sanitary Vehicle (CLV on VSL);
8. The certificate of professional qualification of Medical Assistant (AM);
9. The professional baccalaureate in Accompaniment, Care and Services to the Person (BAC ASSP);
10. The professional baccalaureate in Services to People and Territories (BAC SAPAT);
11. The professional baccalaureate driver road transport of goods (BAC TRM)
12. Persons holding one of the diplomas allowing the exercise of the professions of nurse, masseur-physiotherapist, podiatrist-podiatrist, occupational therapist, psychomotor therapist, medical electroradiology manipulator and medical laboratory technician

Equivalences

Educational project

Work-study training – Return to school September 2024

For a return to school in September , end of February of year N+1

For a return to school in January , end of July of year N.

Develop your skills through simulation

As part of the training framework, the use of active teaching methods, such as health simulation, is recommended. The IFA of Caen University Hospital wanted to develop this method based on reflexivity and the ethical principle “never the first time on a patient ” [1] . This involves acquiring skills, procedures, knowledge or developing cooperation between several actors (multi-professionality). The error is not punished but shared and analyzed, thus becoming a lever for professional reflection and learning.

Based on the simulation typology we propose the following scenarios:

• Written simulations based on concrete cases or scenarios supporting discussions and reflections around the care of a patient in a given situation;
• Simulations on basic mannequins (low fidelity) allowing training in professional gestures (ergonomics, gestures and emergency care, etc.);
• Standardized patients: these are simulated patients or role-playing games allowing caregiver-patient interaction. This involves developing technical relational skills in scripted situations (welcome interviews, crisis situation management, etc.);
• Simulation with medium fidelity mannequin: the objective is to put learners in a progressive situation, to mobilize their knowledge and to acquire skills.

To carry out these sessions, we have 7 practical work rooms equipped with low and medium fidelity mannequins as well as a simulation room allowing recording and live broadcast in the debriefing room.

[1] GRANRY JC, MOLL MC, 2012, Mission report of the High Authority of Health

The training is provided by trainers, State Qualified Nurses, who have varied professional experience and university qualifications: University Diplomas, Licenses, Masters, etc.

Supporting the student in the construction and completion of their professional project is the common thread guiding all the actions of the institute's teaching team. A system to support success, contractual and scalable, has been put in place for several years. It is detailed below

This system begins before starting training. Indeed, thoughtful orientation signals successful integration into training. Thus, the teaching team is involved in all communication actions (open days, careers forum, high school student day, careers fair). Providing information about the targeted profession and possible directions and reorientations is a guarantee of future success.

Then, support to help learners succeed is provided according to 2 intervention methods :

• Support for professionalization;
• Individualized educational monitoring of learners.

Support for success:

The trainer will support students on the path to success and professionalization. It will ensure a pedagogy focused on success which requires:

• To establish a climate conducive to learning by taking into account the physical environment, the human and interpersonal environment;
• To give confidence to the student whatever their initial level and background;
• To determine learning needs taking into account the student's personal motivations, expectations, personality, abilities and difficulties;
• To favor methods allowing students to use and optimize their experiences;
• To get the student to think and question themselves;
• To promote reflexivity;
• To support the student in a learning process and in the development of their professional project

Individualized educational monitoring of learners:

Educational monitoring is approached individually and collectively (3 hours 30 minutes per student).

It is defined as support for the student, by a representative from the teaching team.

The interviews, which aim to monitor progress, are conducted based on:

• Results of theoretical and clinical evaluations;
• Assessments of skills developed during internships;
• Internship reports;
• Various works carried out.

The validation of the training is based on a continuous evaluation system.

For each of the blocks, a first assessment test is organized followed by a second session, called a catch-up session, for candidates who did not pass the first.

Assessment methods: Individual or collective, online homework submissions, table assignments, oral presentations (in groups or individually) of work, simulated situations, analysis of clinical situations.

The Ambulance School is part of a training center which includes:

• initial training : nurse, paramedic, nursing assistant, medical electroradiology technician
• specialty training : operating room nurse, childcare worker
• the training of health managers
• medical training : medicine, pharmacy, maieutics, speech therapy

The grouping of these training courses on a single site makes it possible to develop shared and innovative educational activities: lessons and multi-professional internships.

The building is accessible to people with disabilities. A disability adviser is in contact with all the training structures. The students concerned can contact her via the school secretariat.

3 internship periods allowing the validation of skills in the following places chosen by the institute:

• Adult / Child emergency medicine course (Emergency department / SAMU – SMUR): 2 weeks
• Company Medical transport: 2 weeks
• Short and long-term care structures, follow-up care and rehabilitation, EHPAD , child and adult, psychiatry and mental health according to the IFA educational project: 3 weeks
• During his training in a professional environment, the student carries out at least one night work experience and one weekend work experience.

These courses are organized by the teaching teams in collaboration with the heads of the host structures, according to 5 criteria :

• the training program,
• the number of internships,
• the educational project,
• the student's professional project,
• the student's experience.

The internship course may be modified during partial courses with regard to equivalences.

The State Ambulance Diploma is obtained by validating all the blocks of skills acquired in theoretical and practical training and in the workplace, according to the evaluation criteria defined in the reference system.

Are declared received with the State diploma of ambulance, the pupils, holders of the Certificate of Training in the Gestures and Emergency care of level 2 ( AFGSU 2) having validated all the skills required to obtain the certification.

The jury for the state ambulance technician diploma is appointed by the regional prefect, on the proposal of the regional director for the economy, employment, labor and solidarity ( DREETS ) or his representative. It is chaired by the latter or his representative and includes:

• The Director General of the ARS or his representative
• A Director of an IFA
• A permanent trainer from an IFA
• A paramedical or medical scientific adviser, an emergency professional from an IFA
• A practicing medical transport company manager, holder of a state ambulance technician diploma or his representative who also holds this diploma
• A state-certified ambulance driver employed by a medical transport company or working in a health establishment.

The paramedic can apply for training as a childcare assistant nurse, caregiver, medical regulation assistant ( ARM ), their diploma will entitle them to equivalences.

In accordance with the decree of April 11, 2022 relating to the training leading to the state ambulance technician diploma and the training conditions of the paramedic auxiliary:

The selection process includes eligibility on file and an admissions interview.

Prerequisites for applying for the selection :

• Hold a driving license outside the probationary period, in accordance with the legislation in force and in a valid state (more than 3 years or 2 years if accompanied driving);
• Provide a prefectural certificate of fitness to drive an ambulance or the cerfa duly completed and signed by a doctor approved by the prefecture after medical examination carried out under the conditions defined in article R.221-10 of the highway code ;
• Provide the medical certificate of no contraindication to the ambulance profession (to be completed by a doctor approved by the ARS ) and the medical certificate of vaccinations in accordance with the regulations in force setting the conditions for immunization of health professionals In France ;
• Carry out a 70-hour observation internship (except for exempted candidates: cf. Information notice);

The candidate in practice for at least one month, continuously or intermittently, as an ambulance auxiliary or as an ambulance driver in the last three years, must provide the employer's certificate, and is exempt from the 70-hour internship.

To find out the conditions for total or partial exemption from selection and the diplomas or titles giving the right to reduced training, please consult the information notice.

Details on the selection methods:

• All candidates have a 70-hour internship to complete, except those who have worked as an ambulance auxiliary for at least 1 month in the last 3 years.
• All candidates holding a title or diploma giving entitlement to a partial course will have to pass an interview, except ambulance auxiliaries who have exercised this function for a continuous period of at least 1 year during the last 3 years.
• Candidates exempted from admissibility , holders of one of the titles or diplomas mentioned in the information notice, do not have to write the handwritten document of 2 pages maximum.

Selection 2024

Mandatory online pre-registration for candidates scheduled to take the selection from August 22 to October 25, 2024. No online pre-registration for candidates exempt from selection.

Please use one of the following browsers: Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome

https://concours.chu-caen.fr/MySelect/

REGISTRATIONS: Sending of the file from August 22 to October 25, 2024 inclusive (postmark as proof) and within the limit of places available for candidates exempt from selection.

Publication of eligibility results for the candidates concerned: Friday November 8, 2024 at 4:00 p.m.

Admission interviews: Thursday 21 and/or Friday 22 November 2024

Publication of admission results: Thursday November 28, 2024 at 12:00 p.m.

70-hour internship to be completed before November 21, 2024

Training: from January 6 to July 4, 2025

The IFA can organize the 70-hour course and provide a tripartite agreement, for a participation of 10 euros. The registration form in the selection file must be duly completed and sent with the certificate of civil liability insurance.

Online pre-registration is not registration. Registration for the selection will be taken into account after receipt and verification of the documents in the file. All candidates will receive a letter attesting to their registration for the selection.

The file can be submitted to the reception of the PFRS IFA secretariat (4th floor) at the Pôle des Formations et de Recherche en Santé,
2 rue des Rochambelles 14032 Caen cedex 5

Or sent by mail: Paramedical training center of the CHU – IFA - CS 30001 – 14033 CAEN Cedex 9

The results will be displayed in the lobby of the PFRS and all applicants will receive a letter.

The results will also be published on the internet, but only the receipt of a written confirmation of the results has legal value.

If, within ten days of the posting of the results, the candidate has not sent his reply coupon, he is presumed to have waived his admission. His place will be offered to another candidate on the complementary list.

The results of the selection process are only valid for the academic year for which this selection was organised.

However, the director of the institute may grant, for a period he determines and within the cumulative limit of two years, a postponement for entry into school at the training institute :

• Either by right in the event of maternity leave, rejection of the benefit of professional or social promotion, rejection of a request for training leave, rejection of a request for layoff, postponement of a alternation or for the care of a child under 4 years old.
• Or exceptionally, on the basis of the elements provided by the candidate justifying the occurrence of an important event preventing him from starting his training.