Nurturing Medical Professionalism in the Surgical Community

Perception of medical professionalism among the surgical community in the University of Nairobi: a mixed method study

BACKGROUND Professionalism defines the relationship between colleagues, patients and the society as a whole. Furthermore, being a social construct, professionalism is sophisticated to be regarded simply as a single concept across different cultural contexts. This study sought to explore how professionalism is conceptualized by the clinicians, students and patients in a teaching hospital in Keny...

Professionalism in medical informatics.

Surgical professionalism in the 21st century.

During the past 50 years, techniques and results in surgery have advanced enormously. Heart and lung surgery is now routine and is becoming steadily less invasive. Stapling devices have improved the speed and reliability of gastrointestinal surgery, and minimally invasive techniques are routinely used in procedures ranging from adrenalectomy, through gastric bypass for obesity, to difficult her...

Medical professionalism: the trainees' views.

Medical professionalism is deeply embedded in medical practice in the UK but, with changes in the modern healthcare climate, its nature and role have been increasingly challenged. The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) therefore convened a working party to consider the concept of medical professionalism, to clarify its value and purpose, and to define it. As part of this project, the RCP Trainee...

Journal of Advances in Medical Education & Professionalism

Medical education is a new discipline whichstarted about 50 years ago. The pioneer of thisdiscipline was George Miller from the Universityof Chicago who suggested most of prominentmedical professionals have little or no knowledge ofpsychology of learning and advocated the validity ofpresent medical education in the world.He hypothesized that while very eminent and welltrained scientific oriente...