Professional socialization as a complex adaptive process: a systematic scoping review and integrative theory of professional identity formation.

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Title: Professional socialization as a complex adaptive process: a systematic scoping review and integrative theory of professional identity formation.
Authors: Goh SPL; KK Women's and Children Hospital, 100 Bukit Timah Road, Singapore, 229899, Singapore.; Duke-NUS Medical School, 8 College Road, Singapore, 169857, Singapore., Akbar MF; Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, NUHS Tower Block, Level 11, Block 1E, Kent Ridge Road, Singapore, 119228, Singapore.; Division of Supportive and Palliative Care, National Cancer Centre Singapore, 30 Hospital Boulevard, Singapore, 168583, Singapore., Teo AZH; Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, NUHS Tower Block, Level 11, Block 1E, Kent Ridge Road, Singapore, 119228, Singapore.; Division of Supportive and Palliative Care, National Cancer Centre Singapore, 30 Hospital Boulevard, Singapore, 168583, Singapore., A P; Division of Cancer Education, National Cancer Centre Singapore, 30 Hospital Boulevard, Singapore, 168583, Singapore., Leong JR; Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, NUHS Tower Block, Level 11, Block 1E, Kent Ridge Road, Singapore, 119228, Singapore.; Division of Supportive and Palliative Care, National Cancer Centre Singapore, 30 Hospital Boulevard, Singapore, 168583, Singapore., Sinnathamby A; Khoo Teck Puat National University Children's Medical Institute, National University Health System, 5 Lower Kent Ridge Road, Singapore, 119074, Singapore.; Division of Supportive and Palliative Care, National University Cancer Institute Singapore, 5 Lower Kent Ridge Road, Singapore, 119074, Singapore., Ong EK; Duke-NUS Medical School, 8 College Road, Singapore, 169857, Singapore.; Division of Supportive and Palliative Care, National Cancer Centre Singapore, 30 Hospital Boulevard, Singapore, 168583, Singapore.; Division of Cancer Education, National Cancer Centre Singapore, 30 Hospital Boulevard, Singapore, 168583, Singapore.; Assisi Hospice, 832 Thomson Road, Singapore, 574627, Singapore.; Office of Medical Humanities, SingHealth Medicine Academic Clinical Programme, 10 Hospital Boulevard, Singapore, 168582, Singapore., Murugam V; Duke-NUS Medical School, 8 College Road, Singapore, 169857, Singapore.; Division of Supportive and Palliative Care, National Cancer Centre Singapore, 30 Hospital Boulevard, Singapore, 168583, Singapore.; Division of Cancer Education, National Cancer Centre Singapore, 30 Hospital Boulevard, Singapore, 168583, Singapore., Lim YY; Division of Supportive Care & Palliative Medicine, Department of Medicine, Alexandra Hospital NUHS, Singapore, 159964, Singapore.; NUS Department of Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, 1E, Kent Ridge Road, NUHS Tower Block, Level 10, Singapore, 119228, Singapore., Lim C; Medical Social Services, Singapore General Hospital, Outram Road, Singapore, 169608, Singapore., Shaik MA; Group Clinical Education, NHG Health, 1 Mandalay Road, Singapore, 308205, Singapore.; Institute of Humanistic Medicine, NHG Health, 1 Mandalay Road, Singapore, 308205, Singapore., Krishna LKR; Duke-NUS Medical School, 8 College Road, Singapore, 169857, Singapore. gmslkrk@nus.edu.sg.; Division of Supportive and Palliative Care, National Cancer Centre Singapore, 30 Hospital Boulevard, Singapore, 168583, Singapore. gmslkrk@nus.edu.sg.; Division of Cancer Education, National Cancer Centre Singapore, 30 Hospital Boulevard, Singapore, 168583, Singapore. gmslkrk@nus.edu.sg.; SingHealth Duke-NUS Medical Humanities Institute, 8 College Road, Singapore, 169857, Singapore. gmslkrk@nus.edu.sg.; School of Health Sciences, University of Dundee, 11 Airlie Pl, Dundee, DD1 4HJ, UK. gmslkrk@nus.edu.sg.; Medical Affairs, National Cancer Centre Singapore, 30 Hospital Boulevard, Singapore, 168583, Singapore. gmslkrk@nus.edu.sg.; PalC, The Palliative Care Centre for Excellence in Research and Education, PalC c/o Dover Park Hospice, 10 Jalan Tan Tock Seng, Singapore, 308436, Singapore. gmslkrk@nus.edu.sg.; Palliative Care Institute Liverpool, Academic Palliative & End of Life Care Centre, Cancer Research Centre, University of Liverpool, 200 London Road, Liverpool, L3 9TA, UK. gmslkrk@nus.edu.sg.; Health Data Science, University of Liverpool, Whelan Building, The Quadrangle, Brownlow Hill, Liverpool, L69 3GB, UK. gmslkrk@nus.edu.sg.; Cynthia Goh Palliative Care Institute, National Cancer Centre Singapore, 30 Hospital Boulevard, Singapore, 168583, Singapore. gmslkrk@nus.edu.sg.
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