When incentives and professionalism collide.

Improving the quality of health care: where law, accreditation, and professionalism collide.

Physicians, professionalism and organizational efforts to improve quality--a systems perspective.

The issue of physician professionalism has grown in importance in recent years, in part because of perceptions that our rapidly changing health care system and the incentives associated with managed care threaten professionalism. Inherent conflicts between physician professionalism and the financial and non-financial incentives used by health care organizations in quality management may be unde...

Fostering professionalism in medical education: a call for improved assessment and meaningful incentives.

Increasing attention has been focused on developing professionalism in medical school graduates. Unfortunately, the culture of academic medical centers and the behaviors that faculty model are often incongruent with our image of professionalism. The need for improved role modeling, better assessment of student behavior, and focused faculty development is reviewed. We propose that the incentive ...

Professionalism and Contracts in Organizations

Employees in public agencies rarely have pay for performance: instead their incentives are often guided by a sense of professionalism. This paper concerns how organizations should monitor professionals. The primary outcome of the paper is that weak incentives lead public agencies to exhibit bias in their oversight, by rewarding the interests of their employees to the detriment of other constitu...

Financial incentives and professionalism: another fine mess.