 After the non emergency training, initially an 8 week clinical technician course was undertaken, with 750 mentored hours.Staff usually had to be a qualified technician for 2 years before applying for paramedic training noted above, a further 750 hours mentored had to be undertaken to complete the paramedic course to practice and demonstrate the skills learnt during the hospital placements and residential course.Prior to regulation and closure of the title, the term "paramedic" was used by a variety of people with varying levels of ability.