What Will You Protect? Redefining Professionalism Through the Lens of Diverse Personal Identities.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Professional identity formation (PIF) encapsulates the process of incorporating a physician's professional identity into existing personal identity. Medical schools shape PIF by reinforcing professional norms defined by a historical physician phenotype. Increasingly, medical students who are underrepresented in medicine must confront the apparent contradictions between personal identities and the often-subjective definitions of professionalism endorsed by faculty, patients, and peers. The lack of a framework for negotiating these conflicts can create barriers to achieving full academic and professional potential.

Methods

We designed a 2-hour professionalism module during the first-year medical student orientation at one medical school. Participating students lis

SUBMITTER: Bhatia-Lin A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8636300 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature