Background Professional identity formation (PIF) in medical students is a multifactorial
phenomenon, shaped by ways that clinical and non-clinical experiences, expectations and …

Context The transition to clinical training within medical school is often seen as a struggle
and students remain in distress despite numerous efforts to minimise threats. Efforts to …

Objective Despite a recent surge in literature identifying professional identity formation (PIF)
as a key process in physician development, the empiric study of PIF in medicine remains in …

Background Effective mentorship is an important component of medical education with
benefits to all stakeholders. In recent years, conceptualization of mentorship has gone …

Medical education is tasked with shaping how medical students and physicians think, feel
and act as professionals, or their Professional Identity Formation (PIF). This process has …

Background: Interprofessional education (IPE) aims to improve patient outcomes.
Interprofessional shadowing improves students' knowledge of different roles and attitudes …

Background Mentoring's success in nurturing professional identity formation (PIF) has been
attributed to its ability to build personalised and enduring mentoring relationships. However …

Empathy remains a widely discussed topic within medical education research. Studies on
empathy changes among medical students are not univocal: empathy may decline, remain …

Background The scope of methodological development and innovation in multi-and mixed
methods design is endless and, at times, challenging. The latter is especially true with …

Background This study aims to determine the effect of a pre-clerkship workshop on medical
students' perceptions of surgery and surgeons and to describe their concerns and learning …