Any challenges or ethical dilemmas that were particularly difficult to navigate in your early career? Did these experiences shape your values and decision-making over time?

What role did professional relationships play in your professional identity formation? Did you learn any valuable lessons from your mentors or supervisors that had a lasting impact on your practice?

Have your motivations and aspirations evolved throughout your journey from medical student to doctor? Were there any key moments that significantly influenced this?

Were there any challenges in aligning your personal values with professional expectations?

Did mentorship play a role in shaping your professional identity?

What advice would you give to medical students struggling with their professional identity?

Have you encountered imposter syndrome during the formation of professional identity and how do you overcome it?

Any resources you found particularly helpful/useful during the process of professional identity formation?

What might be some significant challenges you faced as a medical student or in your early career and how's that different from now?

How did you manage the balance between establishing your own personal identity and learning from the knowledge and styles of others?

How much of your current professional identity do you think you started developing in medical school, and what aspects have completely changed?

If you were able to go back and change one thing from throughout your career, what would it be and why?

Do you feel that your your professional identity formation shaped more by significant events, or a long series of smaller events?

How did you grapple with reconciling internal factors (eg. values) and external factors (eg. curriculum, expectations, environment) in your professional identity formation?

What's one piece of advice wish someone told you about developing your professional identity?

What daily routines/rituals define your professional life?

Were there moments in your career that made you question or redefine your identify and a doctor?

How has your sense of self changed throughout your medical career (if any)

What considerations did you have that helped you decide the specialty you wanted to go into?

What experiences did you have that changed how you learnt in the clinical setting and made learning in that environment more helpful?

How did your work-life balance change over your career through the years of the MD, intern year and up to now?

Have you found that you've been able to take much time off?

How do you prevent burnout? Especially when dealing with highly emotional situations (i.e. compassion fatigue)

What do you find rewarding about your day to day job?