A paramedic is a specialist healthcare professional who responds to emergency calls for medical help outside of a hospital. Paramedic training colleges in South Africa are accredited by Health Professions Council of South Africa HPCSA.
Below are the paramedic training avenues in South Africa grouped base on their locations;
GUATENG
- Action Training Academy: Basic Ambulance Assistant Course
- Ambusave: Basic Ambulance Assistant Course, Ambulance Emergency Assistant
- COJEMS Training Academy: Basic Ambulance Assistant Course, Ambulance Emergency Assistant course
- Critical Care Academy: Basic Ambulance Assistant Course
- De Vries Ambulance Academy: Basic Ambulance Assistant Course
- Elihle College of Emergency Care: Basic Ambulance Assistant Course
- ER 24: Ambulance Emergency Assistant, Basic Ambulance Assistant Course
- Global Emergency Technologies: Basic Ambulance Assistant Course
- IET Fire Rescue and EMS Academy: Basic Ambulance Assistant Course
- Impact Emergency Technologies: Basic Ambulance Assistant Course
- Kernbridge FET College: Basic Ambulance Assistant Course
- Lebone College of Emergency Care (Pretoria): Ambulance Emergency Assistant Course, Critical Care Assistant, ECT
- Netcare Education: Faculty of Emergency and Critical Care (FECC): Basic Ambulance Assistant Course, Ambulance Emergency Assistant, Critical Care Assistant
- North West Private Ambulance Training College: Basic Ambulance Assistant Course
- Rescu-Life Africa: Basic Ambulance Assistant Course
- School for Military Health Training (Z): Basic Ambulance Assistant Course, Ambulance Emergency Assistant, Operational Emergency Care Orderly Course, ECT
- University of Johannesburg: National Diploma: Emergency Medical Care, B Tech: Emergency Medical Care, 4-year Bachelor: Emergency Medical Care
- SRQ Ambulance Training College: Basic Ambulance Assistant Course, Emergency Ambulance Assistance Course
NORTH WEST
- Bokone Bophirima Ambulance Training College: Basic Ambulance Assistant Course
- Mokgojwa College of Emergency Care (used to be Tshedimosetso Trauma Training Ambulance Academy): Basic Ambulance Assistant Course, Ambulance Emergency Assistant
- Mankwe Ambulance Training Centre: Basic Ambulance Assistant Course, Ambulance Emergency Assistant
NORTHERN CAPE
- Northern Cape College of Emergency Care: Ambulance Emergency Assistant
LIMPOPO PROVINCE
- Bokamoso Pre-Hospital Academy: Basic Ambulance Assistant Course
- Ingozi Medicals: Basic Ambulance Assistant Course
FREE STATE
- Golden Hour Ambulance Academy: Basic Ambulance Assistant Course
- Impact Emergency Technologies: Basic Ambulance Assistant Course
- Free State College of Emergency Care: National Certificate: ECT
- Leximed Training College: Basic Ambulance Assistant Course
KWAZULU NATAL
- Academy of Emergency Medical Training (AEMT): Basic Ambulance Assistant Course, Ambulance Emergency Assistant
- Action Training Academy: Basic Ambulance Assistant Course: Basic Ambulance Assistant Course
- Africa Medical: Basic Ambulance Assistant Course: Basic Ambulance Assistant Course
- College of Emergency Care- KwaZulu Natal: Basic Ambulance Assistant Course, Ambulance Emergency Assistant, ECT course
- Durban University of Technology (DUT): NDip: EMC, BTech: EMC, MTech: EMC
- KwaZulu Private Emergency Care Training Academy (KPECTA): Basic Ambulance Assistant Course
- Netcare Education: Faculty of Emergency and Critical Care (FECC): Basic Ambulance Assistant Course, Ambulance Emergency Assistant
- St. John Ambulance Foundation: Basic Ambulance Assistant Course
EASTERN CAPE
- Eastern Cape Ambulance Training College (ECATC): Basic Ambulance Assistant Course, Ambulance Emergency Assistant
- Mary Grace Ambulance Academy: Basic Ambulance Assistant Course
- Queensland Ambulance College: Basic Ambulance Assistant Course
- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU): Bachelor of EMC
WESTERN CAPE
- Ambutek: Basic Ambulance Assistant Course, Ambulance Emergency Assistant
- Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT): National Certificate: Emergency Care, National Diploma EMC, BTech: EMC, ECT
- Provincial Government of the Western Cape College of Emergency Care: Ambulance Emergency Assistant, CCA, ECT
- St John Ambulance Training Centre: Basic Ambulance Assistant Course