Professional Identity and Issues
OUR COMMITMENT TO PROFESSIONAL IDENTITY
We will ensure that our graduates have a strong professional identity, which in turn will allow them to demonstrate integrity, responsibility and the ability to navigate ethical considerations, as well as to truly appreciate the societal impact that they will have as professionals within healthcare and health science.
OUR INNOVATION IN PROFESSIONAL IDENTITY AND ISSUES
We ensure that the development of students' professional identity is fully integrated throughout our programmes, offering opportunities for students to learn about, and practice key aspects of professionalism, as well as engaging with professional role models. Key areas of focus include:
- Preparedness for practice
- Fitness to practise cases
- Unconscious bias
- Professional identity
- Moral reasoning and ethical dilemmas
- Professionalism (social media, smoking tobacco and alcohol, use of cognitive enhancers, and promotion of products that lack evidence of effectiveness)
Below, you'll be able to read more about our ongoing innovation in the enhancement of our students' professional identity.
KEY PUBLICATIONS
- Alcohol, tobacco, and pharmacy students: Usage and views on professional issues
- A questionnaire study investigating future pharmacists’ use of, and views on cognitive enhancers
- An investigation of final year pharmacy students’ moral reasoning ability, and their views on professionalism and fitness to practise panel determinations: a questionnaire study
- Topic analysis of UK fitness to practise cases: What lessons can be learnt?
- Do you have any ID? Exploring opinions and understanding of Year 4 MPharm students on professional identity
- Use and views on social networking sites of pharmacy students in the United Kingdom
- Pioneering an Unconscious Bias Educational Activity with Pharmacy Students
- Future Pharmacists’ Opinions on the Facilitation of Self-Care with Over-the-Counter Products and whether this should remain a core role
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