Notes on the medical underground: migrant doctors at the margins

Professional identity research in the health professions—a scoping review

“…Supporting professional identity development and maintenance was the background to research involving professional identity in 37 studies (23%). Sub-themes included supporting the development and maintenance of professional identity generally (5) (Bartlett, 2008 ; Branch & Frankel, 2016 ; Fleit, 2008 ; Forenza & Eckert, 2018 ; Harris & Guillemin, 2015 ), supporting the development and maintenance of professional identity of the profession or speciality (15), (Healey, 2010 ; Hurley & Lakeman, 2011 ; Iwasaki et al, 2018 ; Karpetis, 2014 ; Lafleur, 2007 ; Mackay & Zufferey, 2015 ; Mellin et al, 2011 ; Moorhead et al, 2016 ; Mousazadeh et al, 2019 ; Salim & Elgizoli, 2016 ; Swickert, 1997 ; Tahim, 2015 ; Thompson et al, 2018 ; Zhang et al, 2015 ) with four specifically in respect to professions regarded as having a poor reputation or low recognition (Leigh, 2014 ; Mallon, 2018 ; Morriss, 2014 ; Sercu et al, 2015 ). Supporting professional identity development and maintenance in relation to boundary crossing was also a reason for research involving professional identity.…”

“…Four studies used theories or frameworks categorised under Individual including a developmental perspective (1) (Fitzpatrick, 2004 ), Possible Selves (1) (Bartlett, 2008 ) and one each encompassing learning frameworks of identity related to the individual—Mezirow’s Phases of Transformative Learning (Sawatsky et al, 2018 ) and Illeris’ Transformative Learning and Identity theory (Owens, 2018 ). Place-Identity Theory (Harris & Guillemin, 2015 ) was categorised under Environmental with one study in this category. Four studies indicated the use of a combination of theories —Identity Theory and Social Identity Theory (1) (Mishra et al, 2012 ), Social Identity Theory and Bourdieu perspectives (1) (Beddoe, 2013 ), Heidegger's Principle of Identity (being is always the being of a being) and a developmental framework (1) (Ferrell, 2017 ), and Career Theory and a developmental framework (1) (Gomaa, 1999 ).…”