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Professional Identity and Career Calling Across Medical, Pharmacy, and Dental Students

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Differences in both professional identity and calling appear across health profession students in medicine, pharmacy, and dentistry but to varying degrees. Dental students have a higher professional identity compared to pharmacy and medical students with significant differences in three of five professional identity domains. Students in medicine, pharmacy, and dentistry exhibit differences regarding presence of a career calling to their vocation (e.g., calling to a particular kind of work) more often than a search for a career calling (e.g., searching for my calling in my career).

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  • 08 January 2018

    This article was updated to delete extraneous words added to Table 1 during the production process.

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  1. University of Mississippi Medical School, 2500 North State Street, Jackson, MS, USA

    R. Stephen Manuel

  2. University of Mississippi Medical Center, 2500 North State Street, Jackson, MS, 39216, USA

    Nicole J. Borges

  3. Department of Pharmacy Practice, University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy, 2500 North State Street, Jackson, MS, 39216, USA

    Kim Adcock

  4. University of Mississippi School of Dentistry, 2500 North State Street, Jackson, MS, 39216, USA

    John Smith

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This article was updated to delete extraneous words added to Table 1 during the production process.

A correction to this article is available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s40670-017-0532-z.

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Manuel, R.S., Borges, N.J., Adcock, K. et al. Professional Identity and Career Calling Across Medical, Pharmacy, and Dental Students. Med.Sci.Educ. 28, 19–21 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40670-017-0508-z

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