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Area of Science:

  • Medical Education
  • Psychology
  • Sociology

Background:

  • Professional identity formation (PIF) involves internalizing professional values and norms.
  • PIF is influenced by psychological and sociological factors.
  • Social psychology offers insights into PIF's complex interplay.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To explore how resident physicians manage tensions between professional ideals and practice realities.
  • To characterize the process of professional identity formation during residency training.

Main Methods:

  • Constructivist grounded theory approach.
  • 23 semi-structured interviews with internal medicine residents.
  • Analysis guided by Social Cognitive Theory (SCT), focusing on person-behavior-context interactions.

Main Results:

  • Residents experience tensions between "good doctor" ideals and medical practice realities.
  • PIF is shaped by dynamic, bidirectional influences between identity, behavior, and environment.
  • Residents actively reframe ideals in response to training context.

Conclusions:

  • Social Cognitive Theory effectively explains the bidirectional influences in PIF during residency.
  • The residency training context significantly impacts the development of residents' professional identities.