Our guest for today is Dr. Zubin Austin, a brilliant, multi-awarded Pharmacist, and Professor. He is also an author of well-received books and manuscripts and one of the leading Canadian health researchers installed as a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of the Health Sciences, one of the highest honors for health researchers in Canada. It is an understatement to say that he is an expert in many fields.
In this episode, Zubin talks at length about Professional Identity and many more topics.
Here are the highlights of my conversation with Zubin:
00:29 : Introducing Zubin Austin and our main topic: “Professional Identity”
4:49 : Zubin’s background in pharmacy and his work experience
6:44 : How important pharmacy should be in the healthcare system and how society values pharmacy
10:43 : A hilarious, yet legitimate, analogy comparing America to phycisians and Canada to pharmacy
14:24 : How he came about researching Professional Identity and what it is all about.
16:01 : How an examination mix-up paved a way in him seeing the differences and similarities in the culture of different medical fields
22:42 : Pharmacists during personal times crisis and how disclosure of professional role is a part of the way they navigate and process the event
26:45 : “Ingratiation” and “Imperfect Identity Fusion” in pharmacy and in it’s culture
29:34 : Professional Identity as a lifelong project and how each of us in an amalgam of our diverging personal Identity characteristics
31:19 : Personal Identity being used as a tool and guideline to choose qualified pharmacists, and it’s praiseworthy aspects and shortcomings
37:03 : A discourse on how we still have not figured out how to put into practice making Personal Identity as a guideline in the field of pharmacy
42:09 : The importance of finding one’s identity and not following trends
44:44 : What findings surprised Zubin in all his years in the field of research
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