Question

Analyze the difference between professional identity and interprofessional identity and provide 2 strategies for how they could be co-developed during initial professional training/education.

Answer 1

Solution:

Professional identity is one's self as perceived in relation to a profession and to one's membership of it.Professional identity is created through one's beliefs and attitudes ,values,motives and experiences through which individuals define themselves,in their current anticipated professional life.Formation of professional identity is important in the development of set of internal standards or internal compass to regulate professional work.

Interprofessional Identity :Interprofessional identity there is no universal definition for inter professional identity .There is no shared understanding of inter professional identity and its relationship with professional identity .Poor alignment between definitions,conceptualizations,theories and measures of interprofessional identity exists.The absence of a psychometrically robust instrument that specifically measures interprofessional identity and short term focus of current interprofessional identity research further limits understanding.

Strategies:1.Support learning experience ,provide advanced training,provide mentoring.2 .High ordee thinking skills.plan instructional strategies.