Abstract: Objective To study the perception of role modeling of clinical faculty during internship and professionalism development by medical undergraduates, and to explore the correlation between them. Methods Based on the data of perceived role models questionnaire for medical staff in hospital and professional identity scale of a medical college in Central China from china medical students Survey in 2019, the descriptive statistics, and Spearman correlation was used. Results The score of perceived medical workers' positive behaviors was [3.50(3.00,4.00)], and that of negative behaviors was [2.75(2.00,3.50)], the overall score of professional identity was(3.52±0.59). The overall score of professional identity was positively correlated with the score of perceived medical workers' positive behaviors (P<0.01) and had no statistical correlation with the score of perceived medical workers' negative behaviors (P=0.980). Conclusions The medical undergraduates from this college acknowledged that medical workers showed good role model behaviors, and their professional identity was on the upper-middle level. The positive role model behaviors from medical workers were positively correlated with professional identity of medical undergraduates.

Key words: Clinical medicine, Undergraduates, Role models, Professional identity