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  • Medical Education
  • Professional Identity Formation
  • Qualitative Research

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  • Developing a strong professional identity is crucial for medical students to prevent burnout and misconduct.
  • Existing conceptual models describe physicianhood internalization, but lack a catalog of student-driven professional identity formation (PIF) mechanisms.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To deconstruct and codify the mechanisms medical students use for professional identity formation (PIF).
  • To generate a practical construct for educators to support PIF.

Main Methods:

  • A cross-sectional, qualitative, multi-institutional study involving 52 graduating medical students from four U.S. medical schools.
  • Semi-structured interviews were conducted, and transcripts were coded by pairs of investigators, with a third coder for validation.
  • Excerpts were analyzed to identify and characterize PIF mechanisms.

Main Results:

  • Twenty discrete PIF mechanisms were identified, categorized into three domains: action, reflection, and connection.
  • Action mechanisms include role enactment, observation, and experimentation.
  • Reflection mechanisms involve self-evaluation and feedback, while connection mechanisms focus on support and trust.

Conclusions:

  • Medical students utilize a combination of action, reflection, and connection (ARC) mechanisms for PIF.
  • The ARC construct validates existing theories and offers a framework for educators to optimize PIF interventions.