Thank you.
We’ve got your request.
Someone from Oxford will call you soon, usually today. Until then, there’s nothing you need to do.
You've already done the hard part.
Deciding is the part people put off for years. Everything after this is smaller than it looks — a conversation, some numbers, a date on a calendar. And you won’t be doing any of it on your own.
WHY THIS WAS A GOOD CALL
Three reasons to feel good about it.
1
It is a real trade, taught by people who worked it
Your instructors have been on the trucks. What they teach you is what the job actually asks of you at three in the morning.
2
Ontario needs paramedics, and it will keep needing them
This is not a field that thins out. Services across the province are hiring, and they hire the people who trained properly.
3
A placement record five services already trust
Ninety percent of Oxford Paramedic graduates are hired within six months of finishing — and Career Services is part of why. They work with you on your résumé, interview preparation and introductions to employers, with graduates now working at Peel, Hamilton, York, Halton and Guelph-Wellington paramedic services.
PARAMEDIC
The shape of it, in three numbers.
LENGTH
16 months, full-time
CAMPUS
Barrie
CREDENTIAL
Diploma
Your advisor will confirm all of this against the current calendar — nothing is fixed until you say so.
WHAT IT ACTUALLY FEELS LIKE
Sixteen months, from the inside.
EARLY
The first stretch is anatomy, physiology, and learning the language. It is the densest part, and almost everyone finds it harder than they expected and more interesting than they expected at the same time. You will know the body better than most people ever will.
MIDDLE
Then it moves into your hands. Airways, immobilisation, vitals, scene control — practised over and over in the lab until it stops being something you think about. This is the part graduates talk about years later.
LATER
You go out with a crew, and the training becomes a job. Somewhere in there it stops feeling like school. By the end you are preparing for the provincial exam, and you already know you can do the work.
YOU'LL BE IN GOOD COMPANY
Nobody in the room got there by accident.
If you are worried you'll be the oldest, the newest, or the only one starting over — you won't be. A typical cohort looks something like this.
Straight out of high school
Nineteen, certain, and wanting a career before their friends have picked a major.
Already in healthcare
PSWs and first responders who want more responsibility and a licence to go with it.
Starting over at 35
Leaving a trade, an office, or another country, with a family at home and a reason to finish.
WHERE IT LEADS
A licence, a uniform, and a shift that matters.
Primary Care Paramedics work with municipal paramedic services, hospital transfer teams, industrial and remote medical services, and event medicine. It is shift work, it is physical, and people who love it tend to stay for a long time.
Your advisor can talk you through what hiring looks like right now in your part of Ontario, and what the first year on the job usually pays.
WHAT HAPPENS NEXT
Three easy things, and none of them hard.
1
An advisor calls you
Usually the same day, from a local Ontario number. Miss it and they'll email and try again — you won't be forgotten.
2
You talk it through
Tuition, funding, campus, and how it fits around the life you already have. Ask anything. Nothing is signed on a phone call.
3
You pick a start date
Whichever intake suits you. The decision stays yours, and the date can move if your circumstances do.
Until then: sit tight. There's nothing you need to prepare, send, or fill in.
I spent 11 years in logistics and knew it wasn't where I was supposed to be. By Semester 3 at Oxford, I was running simulations I never thought I'd be ready for.
MT
Marcus T.
Primary Care Paramedic graduate
IN CASE YOU'RE WONDERING
When will someone call?
Usually the same business day. Evenings and weekends roll over to the next working morning.
Am I committing to anything?
No. The call is information, not enrolment. Nothing is signed, nothing is owed, and you can stop at any point.
Should I have anything ready?
Nothing formal. If you know roughly when you would like to start and what your week looks like, that is plenty.
Would rather not wait, or something isn't right? Call us and we'll sort it the same day.