"Busting the hidden curriculum" a realist and innovative perspective to foster professional behaviors.

ABSTRACT: Contemporary health professions education has long delineated the desired attributes of medical professionalism in the form of standard curricula and their role in forming professional behaviors (PBs) among aspiring doctors. However, existing research has shown the contradictory and powerful role of hidden curriculum (HC) in negatively influencing medical students' PBs through unspoken or implicit academic, cultural, or social standards and practices. These contrasting messages of formal curricula and HC lead to discordance and incongruence in future healthcare professionals developing professional identity formation. There is little research on PB modifying educational strategies and their determinants that medical schools adopt to bust the impact of HC. Consequently, it is unclear how th

SUBMITTER: Guraya SS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11652187 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature