Fostering Wholehearted Lawyers: Practical Guidance for Supporting Law Students' Professional Identity Formation

Reflections: an inquiry into medical students' professional identity formation.

CONTEXT Professional identity formation plays a crucial role in the transition from medical student to doctor. At McMaster University, medical students maintain a portfolio of narrative reflections of their experiences, which provides for a rich source of data into their professional development. The purpose of this study was to understand the major influences on medical students' professional ...

Unmasking identity dissonance: exploring medical students’ professional identity formation through mask making

PURPOSE Professional identity formation is an on-going, integrative process underlying trainees' experiences of medical education. Since each medical student's professional identity formation process is an individual, internal, and often times emotionally charged unconscious experience, it can be difficult for educators to understand each student's unique experience. We investigate if mask maki...

The Formation Process of Professional Identity in Nurses

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The formation of professional identity in medical students: considerations for educators.

CONTEXT Medical education is about more than acquiring an appropriate level of knowledge and developing relevant skills. To practice medicine students need to develop a professional identity--ways of being and relating in professional contexts. OBJECTIVES This article conceptualises the processes underlying the formation and maintenance of medical students' professional identity drawing on co...

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