PIF Basics
This process describes how learners develop their identity as pharmacists.
What is Professional Identity Formation (PIF)?
One of the most important ways preceptors influence learner PIF.
What is role modeling?
Learners should be made part of this to strengthen identity formation.
What is the practice team/community?
Focus group participants agreed this is essential for meaningful PIF learning.
What is reflection?
Number of focus groups conducted in the study.
What is four?
Experts stressed that preceptors should understand this difference when teaching learners.
What is the difference between professionalism and professional identity formation?
A strategy involving gradual removal of support as learners gain competence.
What is scaffolding?
Feelings of uncertainty and this conflict between ideal and real practice were commonly discussed.
What is professional dissonance?
Programs should emphasize discussion and sharing rather than relying solely on this teaching method
What is didactic lecture/slides?
Number of expert participants in the study.
What is twenty?
These experiences strongly influence professional identity development and should be reflected upon by preceptors.
What are pivotal moments?
Preceptors help learners become this by increasing autonomy and responsibility.
What is a pharmacist?
Working with these groups helps learners feel more like pharmacists.
What are interprofessional teams?
Steinert's model highlights these groups for shared learning and professional growth.
What are Communities of Practice (CoP)?
Number of major program insights generated from the focus groups.
What is five?
This concept helps explain how learners become members of a profession through participation and belonging.
What is socialization?
This preceptor role helps learners determine where their strengths and interests fit within pharmacy.
What is supporting learners to find their fit in the profession?
This learner perception significantly impacts PIF and should be developed gradually.
What is competence?
Participants recommended that training be delivered in multiple formats, making it this.
What is multimodal and adaptable?
Countries represented by study participants.
What are Canada and the United States?
According to the framework, preceptors should first reflect on this before helping learners develop theirs.
What is their own professional identity journey?
Experts recommended using this perspective rather than treating PIF as an additional task.
What is a PIF lens on existing precepting practices?
Learners should connect experiences to these two personal characteristics to explore professional fit.
What are personal values and professional goals?
This type of learning links development activities directly to daily practice experiences.
What is Workplace Learning (WL)?
The overall goal of the framework developed in this study.
What is supporting preceptors in nurturing learner professional identity formation?