Factors associated with professional identity formation within psychiatry residency training: A longitudinal study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Conceptual frameworks for professional identity (PI) formation highlight the importance of developmental stages and socialization as the learner progresses from legitimate peripheral to full participation. Based on extant literature and clinical impressions, the authors aimed to explore factors associated with PI formation in psychiatry residents over time, and hypothesized that time in training, seniority status, and duration of exposure to psychiatry prior to residency would be associated with PI formation.

Methods

Eighty out of 96 psychiatry residents (response rate, 83.3%) from the National Psychiatry Residency Program in Singapore participated and rated their PI development using the Professional Self Identity Questionnaire (PSIQ) across four timepoints fro

SUBMITTER: Chew QH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8505594 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature