Table 1 Themes and overview of the categories and sub-categories

Destination for Learning: Learning Outcomes

Identity of

becoming a doctor

Wearing a white coat

Values

Functionality

Career decision

Widening an identity

to others and society

Sociality

Situating

Learning Journey: Facilitators and Barriers

Negotiation of meaning

Learning process as participation

Learning process as reification

Promoting the negotiation

From first experience to learning

From relationship to learning

Inhibiting the negotiation

Over-participation as non-learning

Over-reification as non-learning