Taking Off the Mask: Impostorism and Medical Education.

PRiMER

Department of Family and Community Medicine, and Department of Humanities, Penn State College of Medicine.

Published: February 2022

Introduction: Professional identity formation is the complex and iterative process by which medical students learn to think, act, and feel like physicians.

Methods: Using mask making, we iteratively explored changes in student perceptions of their identity across time during medical school.

Results: Themes of impostorism, uncertainty, and identity progression/integration were identified.

Conclusion: Mask making represents a unique method to examine fundamental themes in identity formation for medical students.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9037251PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.22454/PRiMER.2022.527933DOI Listing

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