“…The professional identities of a student and a specialist are two different phenomena. During the professional training phase, only the prerequisites for professional identity are laid, the formation and further development of which take place after the initial adaptation of the young specialist during more intensive professional activities (Baking, Ibarra, & Mukminin, 2023;Carvalho, De Amorim-Ribeiro, Do Vale Cunha, & Mourão, 2021;Phillips, Dzidic, & Castell, 2022). Thus, professional identity is a sense of independent, conscious ownership of the work performed.…”