Admission process for Master in Prehospital Critical Care

Applicants must document a Bachelor in Paramedic sciences, Bachelor in nursing or Medical degree (physician).

Applicants with higher education from Norway, may have it registered digitally. If you have this digitally, with the degree and all courses, you will not need to upload Vitnemålet.

Applicants that don't have it digitally, must upload the entire diploma and transcript of records from the degree.
Check the country list if there is extra information that is relevant for your application. Documentation of higher education from some countries must be sent in through mail, as well as uploading it to Søknadsweb.
If we do not receive the official documentation in the correct way, it may result in a rejection of your application.

Name the documents to make the content clear, such as "Bachelor TOR" and "Bachelor diploma"

Applicants with a degree in paramedic science or nursing must have at least two years post- qualification experience in prehospital emergency care.
Applicants with a completed Medical degree (physician) must have worked as a doctor for at least two years within prehospital emergency medicine after completed education.
Work experience must be full-time or equivalent to two years full-time.

Relevant work experience within prehospital emergency care may include:

• Nurse/paramedic/ambulance worker/physician in an ambulance service (car, air, boat ambulance, or similar).
• Nurse/paramedic/ambulance worker/physician in health care services outside of hospital that offer emergency medical care. Example of this can be health care services that go out on emergency calls.
• Nurse/paramedic/ambulance worker/physician in a dispatch central (AMK-sentral)

Administrative work without contact with patients will not meet the requirement.

The following information must be stated on the documentation of work practice:

• Job title and description of work tasks
• Work position percentage, any extra hours and leaves.
• Start and end date (If the certificate doesn't have an end date, the certificate must be issued in the same year as you apply to admission and be marked "to date" or equivalent, for the period in question)
• Date of certificate issuance.
• Signature and work title from the issuer (inked signature or e-signature)

Name the document "Work certificate [company]", e.g. Work Certificate-Halliburton. If you have multiple documents from same or similar companies, please include the year in the document title.

There is no requirement for Norwegian proficiency for studies taught in English, but there is a requirement for a higher level in English proficiency.

Check our website for language requirements for more information under Studies taught in English.

Name the document "English".

Applicants with completed upper secondary school from Norway, may have it registered digitally in the National Certificate Database (NVB) (link in Norwegian). If you have it digitally, you will not need to upload this document.

For applicants that do not have this digitally from Norway, you must upload the documents.

If your name is stated differently on your documents, you must then document the change of name certificate. Name the document "Name-change"

From 2023 all applicants should upload their valid passport or national ID showing their citizenship. Upload the page with photograph and name of your passport. The passport/ ID card must be valid at the time of applying.