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The Influence of Intersectionality on Professional Identity Formation among Underrepresented Pharmacy Students
Nicole Rockich-Winston1, Aaliyah Robinson2, Sally A Arif3
1Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University, Augusta, GA, USA.
Objective:
The objective of this study is to explore professional identity formation (PIF) among student pharmacists from underrepresented groups (URGs).
Methods:
In this qualitative study, 15 student pharmacists from the University of Georgia and Midwestern University Colleges of Pharmacy were recruited for interviews to explore the influence of intersectionality of race, ethnicity, and gender on PIF. Interview data were analyzed using constructivist grounded theory to identify themes and then further analyzed using Crenshaw's theory of intersectionality, namely structural, political, and representational intersectionality.
Results:
Intersectionality of identities created situations where participants expressed advantages belonging to certain social categories, while simultaneously being disadvantaged belonging to other social categories. This awareness led to strategies to overcome these collective obstacles for themselves and their communities. Participants then described ways to shift perceptions of how society depicts pharmacists and the pharmacy profession. The results depict these processes and how intersectionality influences PIF for URG student pharmacists.
Conclusion:
The sociocultural aspects of race, ethnicity, and gender influence the PIF of student pharmacists who belong to URGs. Intersectionality helps us better understand the ways in which inequality compounds itself, and this results in URG student pharmacists creating opportunities for belongingness and representation. Resultantly, URGs create opportunities for inclusivity and representation. To continue to facilitate this it is essential for educators and university systems to promote ways to foster and incorporate PIF in student pharmacists.
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