Reflecting on professional identity in undergraduate medical education: implementation of a novel longitudinal course.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Today's healthcare professionals face numerous challenges. Improving reflection skills has the potential to contribute to the better management of complex patients and healthcare systems, as well as to improve professional practice. However, the question of how reflection skills can inform professional identity development at the undergraduate medical education level remains unanswered.

Approach

The authors developed and implemented a 4-year course that aims to engage students in a reflective process to increase their awareness of their professional identity development. The course is structured around three types of pedagogical activities: workshops, reflections deposited in an electronic portfolio, and individual discussions with mentors.

Evaluation

Sixty

SUBMITTER: Desilets V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9391548 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature