Medical professionalism on television: student perceptions and pedagogical implications.

Australian medical students' perceptions of professionalism and ethics in medical television programs

BACKGROUND Medical television programs offer students fictional representations of their chosen career. This study aimed to discover undergraduate medical students' viewing of medical television programs and students' perceptions of professionalism, ethics, realism and role models in the programs. The purpose was to consider implications for teaching strategies. METHODS A medical television s...

Nursing on television: student perceptions of television's role in public image, recruitment and education.

AIMS To explore nursing students' perceptions of how their profession is portrayed on medical television programmes. BACKGROUND Recruitment and retention in nursing have been linked to the image of the profession in society. Images of nursing in popular media frequently draw on stereotypes that may damage the appeal of nursing for potential students and denigrate the value and status of the p...

Can professionalism be measured?: evidence from the pharmacy literature

UNLABELLED The need to ensure the future pharmacy workforce demonstrates professionalism has become important to both pharmacy educators and professional bodies. OBJECTIVE To determine the extent to which Schools of Pharmacy have taught or measured student professionalism. METHODS Review of the healthcare literature on teaching of professionalism at an undergraduate level. RESULTS Two-hun...

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Shiraz medical students’ perceptions of their colleagues’ professional behavior

Introduction: Today, development of professionalism is acritical aim of medical schools. Studies have demonstrated thatmedical students’ perceived level of professionalism is inadequateworldwide. This study aimed to investigate the medical students’perceptions of their colleagues’ professional behavior.Methods: This study is a cross-sectional study with 280 medicalstudents at Shiraz University ...