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  • Medical Education
  • Professional Wellbeing
  • Psychology of Healthcare Professionals

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  • Trainee distress and burnout are significant issues in medical education.
  • Existing literature highlights the importance of work meaning for professional wellbeing.
  • Few studies have explored leveraging meaning-making within educational settings.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose professional identity formation (PIF) as a framework for enhancing trainee wellbeing.
  • To explore how PIF can foster a sense of meaning in medical trainees' work.
  • To outline strategies for optimizing PIF's impact on wellbeing.

Main Methods:

  • Conceptual framework utilizing a tri-partite model of meaning.
  • Analysis of the role of PIF in professional wellbeing.
  • Development of curricular and experiential suggestions.

Main Results:

  • PIF integrates competence acquisition with embodying physician values ('think, act, feel like physicians').
  • This process can ground trainees in the meaningfulness of their work.
  • Optimizing PIF can enhance both short-term and long-term wellbeing.

Conclusions:

  • Professional identity formation is a key strategy to cultivate meaning and wellbeing in medical trainees.
  • Curricular design, communities of practice, and mentorship are crucial for supporting PIF.
  • Encouraging trainees as active agents in their identity development enhances professional wellbeing.