Resumen de Exploring the emergent identities of future phydicians: Toward an Understanding of the ideological socialization of Osteopathic Medical students
This project brings constextual factors to the forefront of socialization research by investigating how medical ideology relates to the formation of the identities of students of osteopathic medicine. In particular, we investigate their attitudes toward the role of communication and the expression of emotion in health care delivery. Through in-depth interviews with students about their vocational development experiences, we began esploring their emergent identities as future practitioners of osteopathic medicine. Three themes emerged from a constant comparative analysis of data including selecting osteopathic medicine, encountering osteopathy, and students emergent identities. These themes, and their respective sub-themes, are discussed in terms of the story they tell about the role of technology, as developed and practiced through the scientific method, in the rationalization of professional identies
