Cégep de Rivière-du-Loup offers Diploma in Emergency Pre-Hospital Care, a diploma in Health Sciences programme in Rivière-du-Loup, Canada. The programme runs for 3 years. Tuition for international students is CAD 11,740 per semester.
This three-year technical diploma trains paramedics to assess, stabilize and transport patients in medical, traumatic, resuscitation and mental-health emergencies. The six-semester program builds through anatomy and physiology, prehospital patient assessment, resuscitation techniques, patient movement and evacuation, pharmacology, and applied sociology, alongside general education in philosophy, French, English and physical education. Students train on realistic equipment, including defibrillators, simulation mannequins and the college's own ambulance vehicles, before moving into supervised clinical internships in prehospital settings during the later semesters. The program suits composed, physically capable and empathetic students who work well under pressure and want an action-oriented health career. Graduates are prepared to work with private ambulance services, cooperatives, non-profit emergency services and government paramedic organizations, applying the interdisciplinary coordination, vehicle-operation and emergency-response skills built throughout the technical courses.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: Admission to Emergency Pre-Hospital Care follows Cégep de Rivière-du-Loup's general admission conditions — a Quebec Secondary School Diploma (DES), a Diploma of Vocational Studies (DEP) with the three mandatory Secondary 5 subjects, or equivalent training and experience for candidates who have interrupted full-time studies for at least 24 months — with no program-specific secondary-school course listed. The program is contingenté (subject to an enrollment quota); because places are limited, selection is based on the strength of the applicant's academic record and geographic location, and physical-fitness testing and interviews have been removed from the selection process. Admitted students must obtain a Class 4A driver's licence during the program, meet MSSS/CISSS infection-prevention requirements (vaccination, screening tests, training) for clinical placements, and provide a criminal-record check or certificate of good conduct before accessing practicums and certain courses. No language-proficiency test scores are stated.
Application Details
Application Deadline:Domestic applicants apply through SRACQ (Service régional d'admission au collégial de Québec) for programmes starting in 2027: the Fall 2027 intake has a first-round deadline of 1 March 2027, with further rounds on 1 May, 1 June and 1 August 2027 filling remaining seats; the Winter 2027 intake closes its first round on 1 November 2026, then 1 December 2026 and 2 January 2027. International applicants outside France apply through SRACQ from 1 September 2026 and must complete their file by 1 February 2027 for Fall 2027 entry, after which no international candidate can be admitted; Winter entry is offered only to French citizens, who may apply until 1 May 2027 for Fall or between 15 May and 15 October 2027 for Winter 2028. Admission is not indefinitely rolling: each round carries a firm cut-off, though later rounds absorb whatever seats remain. These are institution-wide dates; this programme publishes no deadline of its own.
