Factors influencing Students developing professional identity | Recommendation |
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Internal disposition | Increasing education and awareness of the profession to assist individuals to make well informed decisions regarding enrolment. This is an attempt to decrease potential identity dissonance |
Programme Enrolment | Reviewing admission criteria to enrol applicants who meet the programme minimum requirements and possess early manifestations of the dispositions required in the clinical associate health care professional |
Intrinsic and extrinsic motivation | Increasing visibility of clinical associate role models |
Clinical Training experiences | Exploring explicit pedagogical practices which support the formation of professional identity. E.g • Fostering early patient exposure • Inter-professional education • Role modelling • Building communities of practice |
Profession related challenges: Regulations and policy governing the clinical associate profession | Advocacy for the profession is required at all levels of the health care system. Synergy is necessary between academic institutions and governmental structures to strengthen policies to contribute to the |
The identity of the profession in the country | Increasing marketing of the profession to raise awareness of the profession |