Table 1.

A summary of participants' perceived professional related influences of paramedic university education

Front-line paramedics	Enhanced public health roles and with it enhanced accountability and public trust Individualized practice and decreased sense of community and ‘camaraderie’ Cultural tension between the ‘pre-reforms’ trained paramedics and the university graduates
Paramedic students	Formal education, certificates, enhanced societal status University and clinical placement socialization Sense of achievement, professional pride, public recognition Potential for greater job mobility Interaction with the academic community and with other professional groups Intensified scrutiny as an academic discipline
The ambulance service	Injection of university-trained, knowledgeable workforce equipped with enhanced medical knowledge and skills Greater job mobility may lead to challenges in retaining paramedics
The host university	Struggle to locate itself between academic and professional requirements Struggle to locate  itself between occupational and organizational professioanlism