Table 1.

Emerging main categories, categories and subcategories from interviews

Main categories	categories	Subcategories	Code
Teaching and learning strategies	Learning outcomes	Personal development	Commitment to excellence
		Interpersonal development	Communicating effectively with patients
	Teaching and learning	Formal curriculum	Recognizing society's expectations of a good doctor
		Target group	Teachers
		Training methods	discussing about professionalism cases in rounds
		Teachable time	as a longitudinal theme
	Evaluation of medical professionalism	Requirements for Effective Evaluation	Giving feedback
		Assessors	Training assessors about assessment
		Assessment methods	Students
		Assessment domains	Attitude
		Target group	summative and formative
Role of context		Rules and regulations to develop professionalism	Establishment of entrance criteria for medical students
		Strengthening the hidden curriculum	Difference in the effects of hidden curriculum on different people
		Executive resources	Computer