Scales to evaluate developmental stage and professional identity formation in medical students, residents, and experienced doctors.

ABSTRACT:

Background

To respond to the growing need to cultivate medical trainees with professional identity, it is necessary to evaluate professional identity formation (PIF) in medical trainees to understand their state of PIF and apply this to medical education. Previous qualitative studies indicated that Kegan's human development model could explain medical trainees' PIF. I proposed a development scale (DS) to quantitatively evaluate the degree of maturation and socialization as a physician; however, one scale is not enough to illustrate the helical and complex process of development.

Methods

Using Kegan's model as the conceptual framework, scales that evaluate stage 2, 3, and 4, and higher stage-specific attributes were developed using data collected in a self-administered questi

SUBMITTER: Tagawa M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7011234 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature