Joanna Sharpless, Nell Baldwin, Robert Cook, Aaron Kofman, Alessio Morley-Fletcher, Rebecca Slotkin, Hedy S Wald
Professional identity formation (PIF) within medical education is the multifaceted, individualized process through which students develop new ways of being in becoming physicians. Personal backgrounds, values, expectations, interests, goals, relationships, and role models can all influence PIF and may account for diversity of both experience and the active constructive process of professional formation. Guided reflection, including reflective writing, has been used to enhance awareness and meaning making within the PIF process for both students and medical educators and to shed light on what aspects of medical education are most constructive for healthy PIF...
June 2015: Academic Medicine