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Veterinärmedizinische Universität Wien

Professional identity: How can we develop ourselves and others for confidence, satisfaction and success?

Whether we have a formal education role, mentor others in practice, or are invested in our own personal development, an understanding of the process of professional identity development can have a beneficial impact on confidence and tolerance with uncertainty and ethical decision-making, and emotional response to career stressors and challenges.

This workshop will support participants to:

  • Define their own professional identity and take steps to define the professional identity of others
  • Describe the contribution of personal experiences on professional identity development
  • Understand the connection between professional identity and personal response to success and challenge
  • Suggest education or mentoring interventions to support the professional identity of students and new graduates

The workshop will involve working in small groups, and participants will be encouraged to think of examples from their own work where they have felt a sense of satisfaction, and examples where they have felt dissatisfied or frustrated. Generational differences in identity construction and priorities will also be explored.

Max. Number of Participants:

N/A (no maximum)

Elizabeth Armitage-Chan

Organizer

Elizabeth Armitage-Chan

Elizabeth Armitage-Chan works at the Royal Veterinary College in London, where she is currently Acting Director of the LIVE Education Centre and Professor of Higher Education. After graduating from Cambridge Veterinary School she did her internship and residency in anaesthesiology at Tufts School of Veterinary Medicine, before returning to the UK to work as an anaesthesiologist. In 2013 she joined the LIVE Centre, and in 2018 completed a PhD in Higher Education Research at King’s College London, focusing on the professional identity development of new graduate veterinary surgeons. This work highlighted the link between professional identity and wellbeing in this population, and during 5 years as subject lead for Professional Studies in the RVC veterinary degree, underpinned curriculum changes, notably in approaches to assessment. 

Elizabeth Armitage-Chan's current teaching focus is on faculty and educator development, and she is the Course Director for the RVC’s MSc, Diploma and Postgraduate Certificate in Veterinary Education, in which she leads modules in professional identity as well as workplace learning and clinical reasoning. She has various national and international committee roles that relate to her expertise in professional identity and qualitative research methods, and she is particularly interested in the relationships between critical thinking, reflection and identity formation.

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