In each step of the process, participants were selected according to profession, role in their organisation, and academic qualifications.
It requires teamwork with co-workers of different professions, roles, hierarchies and power differentials.
The professions, roles and settings of participating health professionals are detailed in Table 1.
Surgical team members' constructions of other professions' roles, values and motivations also seem to vary with those professions' constructions of themselves [ 27, 28].
To gain understanding of other professions' roles and skills, all students participated in all aspects of care, not just their own profession-specific activities.
However, the questionnaire items regarding training facilities, Q1 and Q2, or professions' roles in the facilities, Q4 and Q7, showed a lower level of understanding in OT students.
Although team members of different professions usually collaborate sharing the same organizational routines their constructions of other professions' roles, values and motivations can be dissonant with those professions' constructions of themselves [ 6].
The number and types of health care professionals involved, as well as the inconsistencies of involvement within units, reflect a lack of consensus with regards to each profession's roles and/or responsibilities, as well as a lack of specialized training for conducting medication reconciliation [ 33].
Personality is believed to play a role in career choice [ 11, 12] and it is postulated that an individual will seek a profession or role that will provide personal satisfaction and meet their personal needs [ 13, 14].
This ceiling is thought to result from several causes, including higher concentrations of Asians in professions and roles that are often overlooked for promotion, as well as inaccurate stereotypes of Asians in society.
