Context - An increase in managerialism and a decrease in trust of the professions have challenged traditional concepts of professionalism. The market model of professionalism espoused by some critics also poses problems for professions, professionals and recipients of professional services. Professional development is now an important component of medical curricula. We believe professionalism i...

In this issue’s Editors choice, Aoife Moran, Anne Scott and Philip Darbyshire (see page 70) argue that the process of living on haemodialysis, while waiting for a kidney transplant, is one in which time is both killed and wasted. Rather like the lives of the protagonists in Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, the lives of people on dialysis are ones characterised by existential boredom. Moreover, thei...

introduction: today, development of professionalism is a critical aim of medical schools. studies have demonstrated that medical students’ perceived level of professionalism is inadequate worldwide. this study aimed to investigate the medical students’ perceptions of their colleagues’ professional behavior. methods: this study is a cross-sectional study with 280 medical students at shiraz unive...

CONTEXT The definition of medical professionalism poses a challenge to global medical educators. This is especially pronounced in settings where professionalism frameworks developed in the west are transferred into different cultures. Building upon our previous study across Western contexts, we examine Taiwanese and Sri Lankan medical students' conceptualisations of professionalism in terms of ...

The paper discusses the current problem of organizing and forming concept educational work in civil aviation institutions, which is a special branch national economy. It makes increased demands not only on professional qualities specialists, but also their spiritual moral image, as well general degree culture harmonious development personality. features are shown - focus professionalism social ...

In this paper, we explore how telephone advisory services (TAS) and the implementation of new technology affect nurses and the nursing profession. This study shows that TAS and applied technology embodies ideas of standardisation and efficiency, and promotes an organisational professionalism such that it challenges occupational professionalism. Torn between organisational and occupational profe...

INTRODUCTION Medical professionalism is a core competency for emergency medicine (EM) trainees; but defining professionalism remains challenging, leading to difficulties creating objectives and performing assessment. Because professionalism is dynamic, culture-specific, and often taught by modeling, an exploration of trainees' perceptions can highlight their educational baseline and elucidate t...