Table 1 Scheme of codes, categories and themes
Code | Category | Theme |
|---|---|---|
Difficult to see the future goal | A vision of the future as a physician | Integrating oneself with one’s future role as a physician |
Seeing the future goal through experience in the clinic | ||
Insight into the profession | ||
See that you have made the right choice of profession | ||
Having no physician in the family or among friends | ||
How to combine professional life with private life | Hope to manage it | |
It will work | ||
Fellowship | ||
Self-awareness of one’s own personality | The personal and the professional are interlinked | |
Advice for study tactics versus other interests | ||
Link the professional with oneself-student | ||
Link the professional with oneself–mentor | ||
Distancing oneself | ||
Clinic spurs motivation | Clinical experiences with the mentor spur motivation | Experiencing clinical reality with the mentor creates incentives to learn |
Looking forward to work as a doctor | ||
Positive feelings from experiencing reality | ||
Excitement and fun in the clinic–different terms | ||
Desire for exciting experiences | ||
Being invited | ||
Clinic spurs motivation to study and learn | Learning about medicine in the clinic | |
Connect theoretical knowledge to practice | ||
Novice in the clinic | ||
Interest in medicine | ||
Using the self-assessment form | Orientation concerning the physician’s areas of competence | Towards understanding the professional competence of a physician |
Self-assessment areas | ||
Self-assessment difficult and diffuse | ||
Sets goals to reach | ||
Behaviour in the professional role | Learning about professional behaviour | |
Learning about patient encounters | ||
Getting perspectives | ||
Preparation for difficult situations | ||
Becoming more self-confident | ||
Collegial interaction |