TY - JOUR
T1 - Exploring unlearning in the process of Professional Identity Formation (PIF)
AU - Jayarathne, Shamalee Wasana
AU - Schuwirth, Lambert
PY - 2022/1
Y1 - 2022/1
N2 - Medical Professional Identity Formation (PIF) has been suggested as a fundamental outcome in medical education (Cruess et al., 2014). Medical professional identity is development of both personal and professional identity as a physician. PIF achieved in stages over time during which the characteristics, values, and norms of the medical profession are internalised, resulting in individual thinking, acting, and feeling like a physician (Cruess et al., 2014). It is basically not a process of learning to demonstrate professional behaviour but of change into a “professional being” or professional physician. Throughout the journey of PIF, moments of dissonance between personal values and professional values are likely to occur. So logically, there will be phases of learning and unlearning. Learning is generally well-defined, but unlearning has been conceptualised through different lenses both on the process of unlearning and the unlearnt content, leading to conflicting views.
AB - Medical Professional Identity Formation (PIF) has been suggested as a fundamental outcome in medical education (Cruess et al., 2014). Medical professional identity is development of both personal and professional identity as a physician. PIF achieved in stages over time during which the characteristics, values, and norms of the medical profession are internalised, resulting in individual thinking, acting, and feeling like a physician (Cruess et al., 2014). It is basically not a process of learning to demonstrate professional behaviour but of change into a “professional being” or professional physician. Throughout the journey of PIF, moments of dissonance between personal values and professional values are likely to occur. So logically, there will be phases of learning and unlearning. Learning is generally well-defined, but unlearning has been conceptualised through different lenses both on the process of unlearning and the unlearnt content, leading to conflicting views.
KW - Professional identity formation
KW - medical education
KW - medical profession
KW - Professional behaviour
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85124944454&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.29060/TAPS.2022-7-1/PV2532
DO - 10.29060/TAPS.2022-7-1/PV2532
M3 - Comment/debate
AN - SCOPUS:85124944454
SN - 2424-9335
VL - 7
SP - 106
EP - 108
JO - Asia Pacific Scholar
JF - Asia Pacific Scholar
IS - 1
ER -