Recent calls to focus on identity formation in medicine propose that educators establish as a goal of medical education the support and guidance of students and residents as they develop their professional identity. Those entering medical school arrive with a personal identity formed since birth. As they proceed through the educational continuum, they successively develop the identity of a medi...

Purpose: Becoming and being a nurse is vaguely conceptualized, so it important for nurses to understand the defining attributes, antecedents, consequences, model cases, empirical referents of professional identity with aim better understanding process its formation.