Reframing ‘Teaching Professionalism’ into ‘Developing Professional Identity’: the challenge for medical educators
Professor Mairi Scott
Mairi Scott – Reframing ‘Teaching Professionalism’ into ‘Developing Professional Identity’: the challenge for medical educators
Thank you Professor Scott for your presentation! My entire PhD thesis was critical analysis of professional identity development in pre-clinical medical students here at Memorial University, Newfoundland Canada. I carried out a critical ethnography, using a post structuralist perspective for data analysis. The theories and concepts of Pierre Bourdieu and Michel Foucault informed the research. The students prof id was being molded to “play the game” for future residency careers, dehumanization of the body in the anatomy lab and with SPs in clinical skills-it showed the power of language as SPs were described as a body for examination. Further there was competition to gain coveted clinical experience and performance in clinical skills. An active hidden curriculum was identified in both formal and informal teaching. My main recommendation was the establishment of communities of practice where students could talk and reflect on what their experiences meant to them.