Table 3.
Professional Identity Questions
| Self |
| 1. How would you describe yourself? (e.g., medical student/resident, physician, researcher, spouse, parent, citizen) |
| 2. Why did you go into medicine? |
| a. Did a role model influence you? |
| b. Do/did you have a picture of the ideal physician you wanted to be? |
| 3. Why did you choose/are you planning to go into the specialty of ______? |
| a. What clinical and nonclinical traits does an excellent physician in that field need to have? |
| b. Do you have/are you working on acquiring those traits? How? |
| 4. Who are your role models/mentors? |
| a. What desirable traits do they have that you don't have? |
| b. Are you working to acquire those traits? How? |
| c. Are you trying to behave as they do? |
| 5. Where do you see yourself in 10 years? |
| a. What current behavior will help or prevent you from achieving those goals? |
| b. How will achieve those goals? |
| Others |
| 6. How do others see you? |
| a. Colleagues and supervisors (e.g., capable/incompetent, compulsive/laid back, hard worker/lazy, friendly/off‐putting, experienced/novice, helpful/self‐serving, caring/uncaring, truthful/liar) |
| b. Family and friends (e.g., medical professional/trainee, humble/arrogant, supportive/discouraging) |
| Work |
| 7. Do you treat medical school/residency/clinical practice as your job or as a calling? |
| 8. What traits does a good employee have? (e.g., honesty, helpfulness, arrives on time, completes tasks, takes initiative) |
| a. Do you treat colleagues well? (e.g., cooperative, respectful, gives criticism gently, takes criticism well) |
| b. Do you present/treat yourself well? (e.g., clean and neat appearance, admits what they don't know, stays fit and well rested, takes time for self‐reflection) |