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How pharmacists perceive their professional identity: a scoping review and discursive analysis.

Jamie KellarLachmi SinghGlyneva Bradley-RidoutMaria Athina MartimianakisCees P M van der VleutenMirjam G A Oude EgbrinkZubin Austin
Published in: The International journal of pharmacy practice (2021)
This scoping review illustrates that pharmacists do not uniformly perceive themselves to be clinicians. A significant gap exists between the profession's desired identity and that embodied by practicing pharmacists. The resulting dissonance may be a contributing factor to the lack of wide-scale practice change that the profession has been seeking for decades.
Keyphrases
  • general practice
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