How do mandatory emergency medicine rotations contribute to the junior residents' professional identity formation: a qualitative study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

This study aims to investigate the impact of short-term mandatory emergency medicine rotations on professional identity formation of Japanese junior residents. Using situated learning theory as a theoretical framework, we explore how this rotation, which is part of a two-year Junior residency in the transition period from students to qualified physicians.

Methods

We conducted a qualitative study conducting semi-structured face-to-face interviews with Year 1 postgraduate residents in the 2020-2021 classes of the junior residency program in Okinawa Chubu Hospital, Japan (n = 10). The data obtained from the interviews were analysed using inductive thematic analysis to identify the themes regarding professional identity formation.

Results

Four main themes regar

SUBMITTER: Yamamoto I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11429119 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature