Professionalism lapses in health professions training: Navigating the 'Yellow Card' moments for transformative learning.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Health professions training programmes face increasing reports of professionalism lapses, which can delay, or end, trainee progression. How programmes respond to professionalism lapses to facilitate professional identity development has not been clarified. The objective of this study is to identify factors that facilitate and impair transformations around professionalism lapses in health professions training programmes.

Methods

We conducted a qualitative study interviewing 5 faculty and 20 trainees with firsthand or secondhand experience with professionalism lapses from a range of health professions training programmes at McMaster University. Using reflexive thematic analysis, we coded verbatim transcripts informed by the lenses of social and transformative lear

SUBMITTER: Sibbald M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11906273 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature