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Medical Student Experiences of Professional Identity Formation: Learning in a Landscape of Practice

Jonas, Blythe
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4051-130X
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1648723122555518

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2022, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Ohio University, Higher Education (Education).
Despite a renewed focus on professionalism and professional identity in medical education literature, the experiences of students developing professional identity are still not well understood. Drawing on frameworks of Communities of Practice and Landscapes of Practice, the present study provides greater understanding of the medical student experience of professional identity formation at its earliest stages, during clinical years prior to graduating and entering residency training. This qualitative study gathered data from interviews with fifteen third and fourth year D.O. and M.D. medical students across seven U.S. medical schools. Interview data was coded and analyzed to gain insight into how medical students conceptualize and integrate their identity formation experiences within their community and landscape of practice, and how these learning experiences contribute to their emerging professional identity. Findings indicate that students’ medical professional identity is rooted in a desire to help and serve others, enabled through meaningful interactions with all members of the landscape of practice, and refined through processes of identification and dis-identification with the values and behaviors of practitioners in the landscape of practice.
Peter Mather (Advisor)
165 p.
Education; Health Education; Higher Education
medical education; professional identity formation; medical students; landscapes of practice; professional identity

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  • Jonas, B. (2022). Medical Student Experiences of Professional Identity Formation: Learning in a Landscape of Practice [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1648723122555518

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Jonas, Blythe. Medical Student Experiences of Professional Identity Formation: Learning in a Landscape of Practice. 2022. Ohio University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1648723122555518.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Jonas, Blythe. "Medical Student Experiences of Professional Identity Formation: Learning in a Landscape of Practice." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio University, 2022. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1648723122555518

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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