Professional identity formation among undergraduate pre-medical students: a scoping review protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Professional Identity formation is the process by which learners internalize a profession's values, behaviors, and perceptions. With respect to physicians, this occurs at multiple levels of medical education, including the undergraduate, graduate, and continuing medical education stages. Professional identity formation likely starts even earlier, during the undergraduate pre-medical years but, to date, no known scoping or systematic review has been conducted on this topic. The objective of this scoping review is to systematically map the literature on professional identity formation among undergraduate pre-medical students.

Methods

This review protocol has been designed following the Arksey and O'Malley framework. We will search MEDLINE, CINAHL, Embase, and Scopus

SUBMITTER: Endalcachew M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10517468 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature