As described in the passage a medical student’s sense of self efficacy and confidence regarding patient interactions is most likely to manifest through impression management.
Impression management is a phenomenon in which people make effort to influence the perception of others about something by maintaining and controlling information among the audience. Impression management makes an individual to behave differently in front of others either consciously or consciously so that the person can be seen in a way in which he wants them to. Impression management contains a number of influential factors which are social, cultural and spiritual.