A Concept Synthesis of Talent in Medical Sciences: A Multi-Attribute Talent Model

Rahiminia, Elaheh; Yazdani, Shahram; Shakerian, Sareh

doi:10.22062/sdme.2025.201819.1662

A Concept Synthesis of Talent in Medical Sciences: A Multi-Attribute Talent Model

Document Type : Review

Authors

Elaheh Rahiminia ¹

Shahram Yazdani ²

Sareh Shakerian ³

¹ PhD Candidate of Medical Education, Students’ Research Committee, School of Medical Education and Learning Technologies Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

² Departments of Medical Education, School of Medical Education and Learning Technologies Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

³ Departments of Community-Based Education of Health Sciences, School of Medical Education and Learning Technologies Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

10.22062/sdme.2025.201819.1662

Abstract

Background: Talented individuals are particularly important nowadays due to their potential abilities, creativity, and high initiative toward scientific progress. Due to the passage of time and conducting studies on the concept of talent by researchers, this concept has been observed in the last few decades generally, partially, or in combination with other concepts.
Objectives: The present research aimed to provide a more comprehensive understanding of the concept of talent and its adjacent substructures and abstract structures.
Methods: Concept synthesis in this study was implemented using the stages of the Walker-Avant approach in 2024. After extensive searching on scientific databases of Magiran, SID, Medlib, Iran Doc, Scopus, PubMed, Science Direct, Cochrane, Web of Science, Google Scholar, Eric and using keywords related to the article, resulting in approximately 706 items. After reviewing the articles based on their titles and related content, and given the theoretical data saturation and using 82 articles, analytical concepts and definitions were collected and categorized, and the model was finally presented.
Results: According to the findings, after categorizing and narrowing down the categories and considering the literature review, the present study’s multi-attribute talent model was obtained (a model comprising of stages: acquisition of competency, accomplishment leading to achievement, and culmination into talent”) that concept of talent were synthesized with more complete and precise definitions.
Conclusion: According to the research findings in the present model, talent encompasses high levels of achievement and performance defined by expertise, giftedness, and individual characteristic (such as grit, perseverance, and commitment) based on acquiring competencies and higher-order thinking rooted in intelligence and aptitude within a specific dimension. Finally, based on the available reviews, limited studies were obtained regarding talent models, in which concepts had been used interchangeably, and talent had been assessed limitedly, which we tried to resolve this issue in the current model.

Highlights

Elaheh Rahiminia: (Google Scholar) (PubMed)

Shahram Yazdani: (Google Scholar) (PubMed)

Sareh Shakerian: (Google Scholar) (PubMed)

Keywords

Talent

Giftedness

Intelligence

Aptitude

Achievement

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