In 2 earlier articles a definition of professionalism was developed, and several specific professional responsibilities were deduced. This third and final article in the series examines whether dentistry qualifies as a profession. On various levels, the professionalism of dentistry is found wanting. However, attaining the status of a profession is a work in progress, which means that each profe...

Despite the vision of the bold pioneers of the physiotherapy profession in Australia identified in the recently released history (Bentley and Dunstan 2006), it is unlikely that even they could have anticipated the great strides that our profession has made in the last 100 years. With their origins in clinical massage and with strong support from the medical profession, early practitioners of wh...

The move to become primary contact professionals was perhaps the most significant move in the over hundred year history of the profession. This was a change not taken lightly but one that grew out of a sense that the profession had matured and that it was time to move beyond our close association with the medical profession. At the time this action by Australia caused significant argument in th...