Introduction. Identity in students configures their self-recognition with the profession and involves the personal, family, cognitive, institutional and sociocultural. Objective. Know the components of the construction of the professional identity and the main phenomena that interact in said construction, in students of human medicine of the National University of San Marcos. Methods. A quantitative and qualitative study was carried out. 136 students from the sixth year of study participated in the study and were given a professional identity questionnaire. Sixteen students underwent an open interview. The processing of the data was done with the JMP V7 Software. Results. Of the 136 students evaluated, 63.2% had a favorable opinion regarding professional identity; 34.6%, intermediate; and 2.2%, unfavorable. From the qualitative analysis it was found that the early identification with the...

Objectives: To identify a Peruvian Faculty of Medicine students’ perception on training in health promotion. Design: Quantitative-qualitative study. Institution: Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru. Participants: Faculty of Medicine’s five academic professional schools penultimate year students. Interventions: Two data collection techniques -an interview with a modified Lickert questionnaire and focus group- were applied to 127 students. Main outcome measures: Quantification of the students’ perception on their training on health promotion strategies in relation to Ottawa’s Letter proposition on health promotion. Results: The students’ perception on their health promotion strategies training was moderately favorable, with tendency to be quite favorable in two them: School of Nursing in creating supportive environments for health and strengt...