Keywords
professional identity
students
veterinary medicine
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Abstract
Veterinary professional identity begins to be constructed from the moment students enter university training, based on the conceptions they hold about professional practice. The aim of this study was to analyze the conceptions of first-year Veterinary Medicine students regarding the attributes that characterize a good professional in order to identify the discursive drivers that structure these representations. An exploratory-descriptive study with a qualitative approach was conducted, complemented by descriptive quantitative analysis. A total of 191 students participated during the 2024 and 2025 academic years and answered an open-ended question about the qualities a good veterinarian should possess. Responses were subjected to thematic content analysis through open coding, category grouping, and driver identification. Ten main drivers were identified. Those with the greatest intensity were ethics and professional responsibility (80.6%), animal welfare (71.7%), technical-scientific training (67.5%), and the affective-vocational dimension (61.8%). Relational-communicational skills, problem-solving and adaptability, emotional and personal traits, teamwork, professional excellence, and socio-environmental responsibility also emerged as relevant dimensions. The results show that incoming students construct an ideal image of the veterinarian as an ethically responsible professional, committed to animal welfare, scientifically competent, and vocationally engaged, integrating humanistic, technical-professional, and affective dimensions of veterinary professional identity.
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