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A Pathway to Professional Identity Formation: Report of the 2020-2021 AACP Student Affairs Standing Committee

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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACEUTICAL EDUCATION
Volume 85, Issue 10, Pages 1128-1142

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AMER ASSOC COLL PHARMACY

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professional identity formation; practice transformation; professionalism

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Professional identity formation involves internalizing and demonstrating the norms, standards, and values of a professional community, influencing how a professional perceives and presents themselves. There is a need to further clarify a universal and distinctive pharmacist identity to better support pharmacists and learners in explaining the pharmacist's scope of practice and opportunities for practice change.
Professional identity formation (PIF) involves internalizing and demonstrating the behavioral norms, standards, and values of a professional community, such that one comes to think, act and feel like a member of that community. Professional identity influences how a professional perceives, explains, presents and conducts themselves. This report of the 2020-2021 AACP Student Affairs Standing Committee (SAC) describes the benefits of a strong professional identity, including its importance in advancing practice transformation. Responding to a recommendation from the 2019-2020 SAC, this report presents an illustrative and interpretative schema as an initial step towards describing a pharmacist's identity. However, the profession must further elucidate a universal and distinctive pharmacist identity, in order to better support pharmacists and learners in explaining and presenting the pharmacist's scope of practice and opportunities for practice change. Additionally, the report outlines recommendations for integrating intentional professional identity formation within professional curricula at colleges and schools of pharmacy. Although there is no standardized, single way to facilitate PIF in students, the report explores possibilities for meeting the student support and faculty development needs of an emerging new emphasis on PIF within the Academy.

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