General Practice & Primary Care, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK.
Med Teach. 2012;34(9):e641-8. doi: 10.3109/0142159X.2012.687476.
Medical education is about more than acquiring an appropriate level of knowledge and developing relevant skills. To practice medicine students need to develop a professional identity--ways of being and relating in professional contexts.
This article conceptualises the processes underlying the formation and maintenance of medical students' professional identity drawing on concepts from social psychology.
A multi-dimensional model of identity and identity formation, along with the concepts of identity capital and multiple identities, are presented. The implications for educators are discussed.
Identity formation is mainly social and relational in nature. Educators, and the wider medical society, need to utilise and maximise the opportunities that exist in the various relational settings students experience. Education in its broadest sense is about the transformation of the self into new ways of thinking and relating. Helping students form, and successfully integrate their professional selves into their multiple identities, is a fundamental of medical education.
医学教育不仅仅是获取适当水平的知识和发展相关技能。学生要行医，还需要形成一种职业身份认同——即在专业环境中存在和关联的方式。
本文借鉴社会心理学的概念，从概念上阐述了医学生职业身份认同形成和维持的过程。
提出了一个多维的身份认同和身份形成模型，以及身份资本和多重身份认同的概念。讨论了对教育工作者的启示。
身份认同的形成主要是社会性和关系性的。教育者和更广泛的医疗界需要利用和最大化学生在各种关系环境中所经历的机会。广义上的教育是关于自我转变为新的思维和关联方式。帮助学生形成并成功地将他们的专业自我融入到他们的多重身份中，是医学教育的基础。
