Hi,Being a paramedic is a really exciting profession at the moment - there are more and more opportunities opening up in all sorts of settings. Not all non-ambulance roles will require study over your BSc - if you're wanting to work in an equivalent role to being an ambulance paramedic but within a different setting (for example practicing as a Paramedic in a prison, or offshore work, or events work, or disability assessments (to pick four random examples)), then it's a case of applying for the role and you're off.To practice at Specialist Paramedic level (so including roles like Paramedic Practitioners, ECPs, CCPs, Senior Lecturers etc), the expectation is that you'd have a PGDip or equivalent. The vast majority of Specialist Paramedic roles will include the education in them - you can't really do the university bit on its own, as it usually needs some placements running alongside the academic side. The funding arrangements can be complex; but they're usually funded by someone (Health Education England and your Employer being the most obvious ones).Advanced Paramedics (including roles like Advanced Clinical Practitioners, Advanced Paramedic Practitioners and London's APPs), would usually be educated to MSc Level. Again, this requires placement learning as well as the acaedemic side.If you're really going places, Consultant Paramedic roles (usually the most clinically senior paramedics in an ambulance service, or holders of professorships in Paramedicine etc) are indeed starting to require a PhD. PhDs are funded like most PhDs - you find someone to sponsor you and go ahead with the research at a university. To answer your question about practice locations, the Paramedic profession is widening day by day. You're right that the majority of Paramedics currently practice in Ambulance Services; it's where are profession was born, and it's our unique niche - in the same way that the majority of Nurses work on wards. Ambulance services traditionally offer lots of Paramedic roles, a few Specialist Paramedic roles in either Urgent Care or Critical Care, a very small number of Advanced Paramedic Roles, and then a tiny number of Consultant Paramedic Roles. However, outside the Ambulance Service, there are a few Paramedic roles, a lot of Specialist Paramedic roles, and a few Advanced Paramedic Roles. It's hard to be specific - I'm sure that in 3 years time when you've qualified, we'll be working in all sorts of places that we aren't at the moment. At the moment, the big