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 AustinPublished 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.