Irish College of Paramedics

the irish college of paramedics (icop) is a professional body, concerned with the development and promotion of our profession, based on an all-inclusive non-discriminatory membership. it is not a college, not a university, but ‘collegial’ defined as: ‘co-operative interaction among colleagues’ or a group of professionals working for our profession. icop represents the profession, and includes all levels of registered pre-hospital practitioner. as well as registered practitioners: emts, paramedics and advanced paramedics. our membership also includes associate members: overseas paramedics and emts, student paramedics, volunteer responders, physicians and nurses, and is not restricted to registrants only. it is an all-encompassing body representing practitioners and responders from professional, voluntary and private organisations in ireland and abroad.