ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an overview of our work. We illustrate how the insider/outsider research perspectives impacted and informed this research, before reflecting on the study. We offer some thoughts on the strengths and limitations of the study before suggesting some potential future research for paramedic education, offering recommendations for policy and practice, prior to concluding this book.
We truly believe that this research is significant because it has created new knowledge about the enculturation of university student paramedics and experienced paramedics. To date, few studies have explored this topic thoroughly drawing on an ethnographic position, from university through to the impact of work-based placements. Whilst the theories of enculturation within healthcare are not new, this work generates a theoretical model of the UK student paramedic enculturation through an ethnographic perspective, from an experienced paramedic and academic, reflecting the paramedic paradigm.
