Pharmacy Professionalism and Professional Identity Formation (Week 2)

A set of 30 vocabulary flashcards defining key terms and concepts related to professionalism, trust, professional identity formation, and advocacy in pharmacy based on the lecture notes.

True Professional

Someone who is knowledgeable, responsible, honest, respectful, and committed to helping others, while taking responsibility for their actions and continuing learning.

Professional Identity

A self-conception that develops over time through education, work experience, challenges, and interactions with patients and coworkers to build confidence, skills, and professionalism.

Job

Work you are trained to perform that carries responsibilities to an employer and asks: 'What am I expected to do?'

Profession

A role society entrusts you to fulfill that carries responsibilities to patients, society, and the profession, and asks: 'What has been entrusted to me?'

Pharmacist Responsibilities Beyond Dispensing

Duties including educating patients, promoting medication safety, identifying drug interactions, providing health services, and working with other healthcare professionals to improve patient care.

Pharmacy Foundation

Trust, which is built on patients entrusting pharmacists with their health, safety, personal information, potent medications, professional expertise, and life-affecting decisions.

Earning Trust

The principle that trust is not simply given to a profession, but must be continually earned or risk being lost.

Trust Progression Cycle

The sequence where TRUST leads to EXPECTATIONS, which leads to RESPONSIBILITY, which leads to ACCOUNTABILITY.

Accountability

Being answerable for how one uses what has been entrusted to them by patients and society.

New Student Entrustment Stage

The initial stage of student development characterized by expectations to Learn, Listen, Ask, and Begin.

Developing Student Pharmacist Entrustment Stage

The intermediate stage of student development characterized by expectations to Apply, Participate, and Take Responsibility.

APPE Student Entrustment Stage

The advanced experiential stage of student development characterized by expectations to Demonstrate, Contribute, and Be Accountable.

Pharmacist Entrustment Stage

The practitioner stage of professional development characterized by expectations to Exercise Judgment, Serve, Lead, and Steward.

Professionalism

How individuals demonstrate to others that they are worthy of the trust placed in them through competence, integrity, reliability, and respect.

Manifestations of Trustworthiness

Core professional traits—competence, integrity, reliability, and respect—that represent visible expressions of deeper values rather than a behavioral checklist.

Incoming Student Foundations

The personal values, experiences, strengths, personality, relationships, and aspirations that students bring with them upon entering pharmacy school.

Professional Identity Formation (PIF)

The process of becoming a pharmacist by learning to think like a pharmacist, act like a pharmacist, and feel like a pharmacist.

PIF Identity Progression

The developmental self-questioning process progressing from 'Who am I?' to 'Who am I becoming?' to 'Who am I as a pharmacist?'

Professional Identity Formation Cycle

The cyclical process of growth: EXPERIENCE → REFLECTION → FEEDBACK → GROWTH → NEW EXPERIENCE.

Shapers of Professional Identity

External and internal influences including role models, faculty, peers, teams, successes, mistakes, challenges, and choices.

Path from Personality to Leadership

The structural progression from PROFESSIONAL IDENTITY to PROFESSIONALISM to PROFESSIONAL BEHAVIOR.

Professional Behavior Components

Visible practices including preparation, reliability, communication, respect, accountability, and integrity.

Advocacy

Using one's voice and actions to support something or someone entrusted to their care.

Patient Advocacy

Supporting the needs, rights, dignity, safety, and interests of patients.

Professional Advocacy

Supporting the profession and its ability to serve patients and society.

Stewardship

The duty of care and responsibility over entrusted roles that sometimes requires speaking up on behalf of others.

P1 Student Advocacy Stage

The initial advocacy developmental step defined by actions to Learn, Participate, Ask, and Serve.

Developing Student Pharmacist Advocacy Stage

The intermediate advocacy developmental step defined by actions to Educate, Contribute, and Speak Up.

APPE Student Advocacy Stage

The advanced experiential advocacy developmental step defined by actions to Apply, Collaborate, and Advocate.

Student Pharmacist Advocacy Targets

The four key areas a student pharmacist can advocate for: Patients, Communities, The Profession, and One Another.