Those transitioning from practice to academia can struggle with the perception that they
might lose their hard-won and deeply-held professional identity, while grappling with the
difficulty of creating an academic identity. This is a common experience for those entering
universities with strong clinical identities. Paramedics, as members of an emerging health
profession, share these challenges with nursing and allied health professionals. In this study
of paramedic academics in Australia and New Zealand, a majority did not consider …