BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20250511T041951EDT-9247R3Seef@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20250511T081951Z DESCRIPTION:\nLara Varpio\, PhD\n\nProfessor\, Department of Pediatrics Per elman School of Medicine University of Philadelphia\n Co-Director of Resear ch in Medical Education The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia\n\nProfess ional Identity Formation as Immigration\n\nWe gratefully acknowledge the N ewell Trust in Research in Health Sciences Education for providing support for this event\n\nWe welcome you to join us for this person in-person. Pl ease note there will not be a Zoom link offered for this meeting. This in an in-person event only\, space is limited in order to secure your space w e ask that you register.\n \n Abstract:\n Just as immigrants from various cou ntries travel great distances in hopes of calling a new country home\, our health professions learners also undertake great journeys. For some\, the ir trips might involve geographic treks\; however\, all will undertake gre at private journeys across any number of terrains in the name of professio nal identity formation. In this session\, we’ll consider professional iden tity formation as a form of immigration. Through this framing\, we will co nsider the deeply personal—and sometimes painful—work that is involved in taking on the responsibilities of the white coat.\n\nLearning objectives: \n\nAfter attending this presentation\, participants will be able to:\n\n1 . Understand professional identity formation (PIF) as a personal and socia l process\;\n\n2. Describe the reasons why\, for many\, PIF is a transform ative process that begins well before matriculation\;\n\n3. Recognize the dangers of PIF that have been reported in the literature\; and\n\n4. Descr ibe how recognizing PIF as subjectification can help address the dangers o f the PIF immigration journey.\n\nDr. Lara Varpio is Professor of Pediatri cs at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Philadelphia an d the Co-Director of Research in Medical Education at The Children’s Hospi tal of Philadelphia. She started these positions in 2022\, after serving f or 9 years at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences\, a nd 6 years at the University of Ottawa\, Canada.\n\nDr. Varpio’s research investigates how individual clinicians can shape the medical profession\, and how the profession shapes individual clinicians. In that research\, sh e uses qualitative methodologies and methods\, integrated with theories fr om the Social Sciences and Humanities. Her most recent work is related to: the perilous myths of professional identity formation\, and how the conce pt of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning is failing medical educatio n. She mentors many individual health professions educators from several s pecialties in a wide range of topics\, and is internationally recognized f or her expertise in qualitative research methods and methodologies\, and w ith a wide array of different theories.\n\nDr. Varpio has secured over $5. 7millionUSD in research grants\, has authored +150 peer-reviewed conferenc e presentations\, disseminated +180 peer-reviewed publications\, and given keynote talks and invited sessions at all the major medical education int ernational conferences. Dr. Varpio was recently selected by the Fulbright Scholarship committee to mentor and host a Fulbright Scholar award winner from Australia. In 2019\, she was selected as one of twelve inaugural Karo linska Fellows. She was co-host of the KeyLIME podcast\, and moved with th e show to the Karolinska Institutet\, and now co-hosts the PAPERs Podcast. \n\n \n\n \n DTSTART:20250123T210000Z DTEND:20250123T223000Z SUMMARY:IHSE Visiting Scholar Special Presentation URL:/ihse/channels/event/ihse-visiting-scholar-special -presentation-362255 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR