Measuring the development of a medical professional identity through medical school.

Purpose: The Professional Identity Essay (PIE) is a theory and evidence-based Medical Professional Identity Formation (MPIF) measure. We describe trajectories of PIE-measured MPIF over a 4-year US medical school curriculum.

Methods: Students write PIEs at medical school orientation, clinical clerkships orientation, and post-advanced (near graduation) clerkship.

Assessment of professional identity formation: a transcultural validation of the professional identity essay for brazilian portuguese.

Introduction: Professional identity formation (PIF) is recognized worldwide as an outcome of medical education grounded in the psychology of adult development and the literature on medical professionalism. However, instruments to assess and support PIF are scarce. The Professional Identity Essay (PIE) is an open-ended question assessment of PIF that elicits short narrative responses from learners and that can be analyzed to provide formative feedback and an overall stage of development.

Does a measure of Medical Professional Identity Formation predict communication skills performance?

Objective: To validate an approach to measuring professional identity formation (PIF), we explore if the Professional Identity Essay (PIE), a stage score measure of medical professional identity (PI), predicts clinical communication skills.

Methods: Students completed the PIE during medical school orientation and a 3-case Objective Structured Clinical Exam (OSCE) where standardized patients reliably assessed communication skills in 5 domains. Using mediation analyses, relationships between PIE stage scores and communication skills were explored.

Beyond cognitive measures: Empirical evidence supporting holistic medical school admissions practices and professional identity formation.

This article was migrated. The article was marked as recommended. Medical schools seek admissions methods that identify applicants who hold promise to become physicians who will navigate and shape the future medical landscape.

Professional Identity Formation in medical school: One measure reflects changes during pre-clerkship training.

This article was migrated. The article was marked as recommended. Professional Identity Formation (PIF), the process of internalizing a profession's core values and beliefs, is an explicit goal of medical education.