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Developing “a Way of Being”: Deliberate Approaches to Professional Identity Formation in Medical Education

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Chandran, L., Iuli, R.J., Strano-Paul, L. et al. Developing “a Way of Being”: Deliberate Approaches to Professional Identity Formation in Medical Education. Acad Psychiatry 43, 521–527 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40596-019-01048-4

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