Assessment of clinical competencies by using objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) is one of the current mainstreams in medical education. According to the concept of Miller’s pyramid, OSCE is defined as an assessment method belonging to the entity of “shows how”, i.e. an assessment method designed for the evaluation of clinical skills. In this issue of the Journal of the Chinese Med...

BACKGROUND The emphasis on ethics and professionalism in medical education continues to increase. Indeed, in the United States the ACGME will require residency programs to include professionalism training in all curricula by 2007. Most courses focus on cases generated by the course instructors rather than on cases generated by the trainees. To date, however, there has been no assessment of the ...

BACKGROUND Professionalism is a critical quality for physicians to possess. Physician professionalism has received increased attention in recent years, with many authorities suggesting that professionalism is in decline. An understanding of the factors contributing to professionalism may allow the development of more effective approaches to promoting this quality in medical education. DISCUSS...

This paper describes the development of a technology architecture that not only supports the technical performance assessment of a medical simulator but also facilitates a validated competence based assessment system in one selected anaesthetic procedure i.e. spinal anaesthesia. Based on extensive mapping of the competencies required for the performance of this procedure, a system architecture ...

PURPOSE Peer assessment is a valuable source of information about medical students' professionalism. How best to facilitate peer assessment of students' professional behavior remains to be answered, however. This report extends previous research through a multi-institutional study of students' perspectives about system characteristics for peer assessment of professionalism. It examines whether ...

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Professionalism has been a hot topic in medical education and in medicine in general. Professionalism in medicine embodies the relationship between medicine and society as it forms the basis of patient-physician relationships and the mutual expectations patients and physicians have of each other. Education on professionalism in medicine and professionalism in medical education are two important...

in today's organizations, an effective human resource management as the most important organizational source- especially in critical industries such as electricity industry- is not achievable unless having a systematic, specialized and professional perspective. professionalism is a perfect and holistic view to a work or working situation that it encompasses a comprehensive mastery in affai...