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Differences in both professional identity and calling appear across health profession students in medicine, pharmacy, and dentistry but to varying degrees. Dental students have a higher professional identity compared to pharmacy and medical students with significant differences in three of five professional identity domains. Students in medicine, pharmacy, and dentistry exhibit differences regarding presence of a career calling to their vocation (e.g., calling to a particular kind of work) more often than a search for a career calling (e.g., searching for my calling in my career).