The Private Lives and Professional Identity of Medical Students

by Robert S. Broadhead

Overview

This book is a study of the impact of professional socialization on the private and family lives of medical students. It is concerned with revealing how students articulate their emerging identities as professionals with primary identities.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780878554782
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/31/1983
Series:	New Observations Series
Pages:	138
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

1. Professional Socialization and Private Life 2. Fashioning a Professional Identity 3. The Impact of Professional Socialization on Students' Conception of Self 4. Private and Family Life in Professional Socialization 5. Private Lives and Professional Careers: Students' Management of the Future 6. The Impact of Private Life on Medical Training 7. Conclusion

Editorial Reviews

This slender volume is . . . an overview of various aspects of the medical school experience as they affect and are shaped by certain features and concerns of the personal lives of medical students. The book draws on the theoretical perspectives and methodology of symbolic interactionism as those have been applied specifically to the processes entailed in the acquisition of professional medical identity. . . . [The] book serves as a nice illustration for students, in particular, of the usefulness of sociological concepts in explicating the patterned arrangements of everyday life and experiences.” —Martha R. Fowlkes, Contemporary Sociology

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