"Can virtue be taught?": a content analysis of medical students' opinions of the professional and ethical challenges to their professional identity formation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Efforts have begun to characterize the ethical and professional issues encountered by medical students in their clinical years. By applying previously identified taxonomies to a national sample of medical students, this study seeks to develop generalizable insights that can inform professional identity formation across various clerkships and medical institutions.

Methods

In a national survey of medical students, participants answered an open-ended survey item that asked them to describe a clinical experience involving an ethical or professional issue. We conducted a content analysis with these responses using the Kaldjian taxonomy of ethical and professionalism themes in medical education through an iterative, consensus-building process. Noting the emerging virtue

SUBMITTER: Hawking M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7584068 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature