فهرست نشریات علمی دسترسی آزاد ایران

Professional identity formation (PIF) refers to the possession and exhibition of the conduct of a medicalprofessional. It’s an external representation of a medical personnel’s feelings, beliefs, experiences,and values that influence the provision of holistic patient care. Apart from training medical studentsto be competent and skilled physicians, one of the goals of today’s medical education must be toencourage them to achieve professional identity formation. Many medical schools across the globehave made this explicit during the clinical years of study, but we believe that professional identityformation starts as early as day one of medical school. So, for educators, apart from deliveringbasic science subject content during early years of study, the creation of learning opportunitiesand pedagogic space in the curriculum to enhance competencies of PIF becomes mandatory. Thiscompetency‑based educational approach will help medical students transform and reconsider theirown values and beliefs by relating to the behaviors that are expected by the profession, colleagues, andpatients when they graduate as medical doctors. In this paper, we discuss how a competency‑basedcurriculum should provide opportunities for students to interact and communicate effectively withpatients and colleagues, to self‑reflect on their own personal identity before creating a professionalidentity that is unique to the profession, to make the right judgment and confidently practice medicinein a business‑based healthcare system.