CONTEXT 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. OBJECTIVES This article conceptualises the processes underlying the formation and maintenance of medical students' professional identity drawing on co...

Changes in the education system are accompanied by changes of a person’s views on him/herself, his/her place in professional and social world. This leads to the difficulties with professional identity formation. The article presents the data showing the impact of young teachers’ participation in youth professional educational games on professional identity formation.

Identity has become a much-used word. The term captures the dilemma of self, for it describes and seems to explain the contradictions of living in a society that appears to be in constant change. Similarly, 'postmodernism', 'postmodernity', and 'postmodern' have become widely-used terms in public life as well as in the social sciences. In this context, indentity-construction and maintenance in ...

The occupational injury death rate and mortality ratio owing to cerebrovascular cardiovascular diseases in the construction industry are highest among all industries Taiwan. Reducing work stress improving safety behavior is a must for reducing disasters diseases. Construction site management personnel’s an important paradigm workers. This study explored relationships stress, behavior, professio...

The purpose of this study was to investigate experienced secondary school teachers' (N"80) current and prior perceptions of their professional identity. A questionnaire was used to explore the way teachers see (and saw) themselves as subject matter experts, didactical experts, and pedagogical experts. The teachers currently see their professional identity as consisting of a combination of the d...