Reframing learning interactions: transforming professional identity among students of traditional Korean medicine.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Understanding the construction of professional identities is a key challenge in medical education. Advancing a global understanding of medical professionalism requires the recognition of the general principles and sociocultural particularities that shape professional identities across diverse medical traditions. We investigated how students of traditional Korean medicine develop a professional identity through transformative learning within a specific sociocultural context. The research questions are as follows: (1) How does the professional identity of students of traditional Korean medicine develop? (2) In the context of professional identity formation, how do students of traditional Korean medicine construct meaning from their cognitive (content dimension of learning)

SUBMITTER: Park GM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12853682 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature