Performativity, identity formation and professionalism: Ethnographic research to explore student experiences of clinical simulation training.

ABSTRACT: Developing professional identity is a vital part of health professionals' education. In Auckland four tertiary institutions have partnered to run an interprofessional simulation training course called Urgent and Immediate Patient Care Week (UIPCW) which is compulsory for Year Five medical, Year Four pharmacy, Year Three paramedicine and Year Three nursing students. We sought to understand student experiences of UIPCW and how those experiences informed student ideas about professional identity and their emergent practice as health professionals within multidisciplinary teams. In 2018, we commenced ethnographic research involving participant observation, field notes, interviews, photography and observational ethnographic film. A total of 115 students participated in this research. The emerge

SUBMITTER: Jowsey T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7392231 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature