Step by Step

INTRODUCTION

Professional Profile Details

QUIZ

EVALUATION

CERTIFICATE

INTRODUCTION

Credit Hours: 1.00

Target Audience:

This activity is directed to physicians, medical students, nurse practitioners, nurses, and physician assistants.

Educational Objectives:

Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:

  • Differentiate the defining characteristics of a profession as applied to the practice of medicine.
  • Explain professional identity formation by relating its core elements to the development of physicians who think, act, and feel in accordance with professional values and norms.
  • Analyze key personal, cultural, and systemic factors—such as medical ideology, perfectionism, and work intensity—that influence professional identity formation in medicine.

There is no educational content to this course. This course is designed to only administer the post-test and collect CME evaluations for the podcast associated with this training.

Suggested Additional Reading :

  1. Sawatsky AP, et al. Professional identity formation metaphors. Perspect Med Educ. 2025
  2. Sawatsky AP, et al. Identity work: A qualitative study of residents’ experiences. Perspect Med Educ. 2024
  3. Sawatsky AP, et al. Professional identity struggle and ideology.Med Educ. 2023
  4. Sawatsky AP, Monrouxe LV. When I say … identity. Med Educ. 2023
  5. Santivasi WL, et al. Reframing professional identity through navigating tensions. Med Educ. 2022
  6. Sawatsky AP, et al. Coaching versus competency to facilitate professional identity formation. Acad Med. 2020
  7. Sawatsky AP, et al. Autonomy and professional identity formation in residency training. Med Educ. 2020
  8. Sawatsky AP, et al. Transformative learning and professional identity formation during international health electives. Acad Med. 2018
  9. Sawatsky AP. Cultural competency, professional identity formation and transformative learning. Med Educ. 2017

Authors:
Adam Sawatsky MD, MS — Professor of Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
No relationships with industry relevant to the content of this educational activity have been disclosed.
Tony R. Tarchichi, MD — Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC.) Paul C. Gaffney Diagnostic Referral Group
No relationships with industry relevant to the content of this educational activity have been disclosed.
No other members of the planning committee, speakers, presenters, authors, content reviewers and/or anyone else in a position to control the content of this education activity have relevant financial relationships with any companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

In support of improving patient care, the University of Pittsburgh is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine designates this enduring material activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Each physician should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Other health care professionals will receive a certificate of attendance confirming the number of contact hours commensurate with the extent of participation in this activity.

The University of Pittsburgh is an affirmative action, equal opportunity institution.