Doctorate
Doctorate Title: Impact of diversity and professional training on cultural competency in paramedics.
Doctorate Description: Cultural competency is the ability to understand and appreciate the cultural beliefs, attitudes, values, and practices of people that differ from one’s own, and be able to interact with them. Cultural competency has become recognised as a necessary component of clinical care. Paramedics frequently work with a wide diversity of patients in complex, uncontrolled and high-pressure situations. We propose that cultural competency is an essential element of paramedic care. This can also be observed in the various cultural competency and diversity training present in healthcare both pre and post qualification. The Workforce Race Equality Standard (WRES) data shows that the ambulance service across England is not as diverse as the wider NHS. Therefore, this study aims to explore the relationship and impact of diversity and professional training on cultural competency in paramedics.
Details:
Type: PhD
University: University of East Anglia
Primary Supervisor: Dr Katherine Deane
Category: Professional Development
Funding: University of East Anglia
Start Date: 2022
End Date: 2025
Status: Ongoing
Thesis
Awaiting
Research Interests
Racial health inequalities, relationship between diversity and health on a patient, clinician and organisational level.
