Description of a male role model	Description of a female role model
‘It’s when he meets a patient… He is a social genius’ (female, student)	‘She had a really good relationship to patients. It was almost as if patients hugged her at the end and thanked her.’ (female, student)
‘He is like… well he is magical. I felt that I could ask anything without feeling stupid’ (female, student)
‘He was so incredibly good, like, he knew everything’ (male, student)
‘If I could become half the doctor he is, I would be really successful’ (female, student)
‘He was very, very, very knowledgeable in his area too’ (male, faculty)
‘A completely, thoroughly good person’ (male, student)
‘A fantastic person, a good person’ (female, faculty)

Int J Med Educ. 2020; 11:31-36; doi: 10.5116/ijme.5e08.b95b