OBJECTIVE To assess pharmacy students' Facebook activity and opinions regarding accountability and e-professionalism and determine effects of an e-professionalism education session on pharmacy students' posting behavior. METHODS A 21-item questionnaire was developed, pilot-tested, revised, and administered to 299 pharmacy students at 3 colleges of pharmacy. Following a presentation regarding ...

BACKGROUND Professionalism is an important feature of the professional jobs. Dynamic nature and the various interpretations of this term lead to multiple definitions of this concept. The aim of this paper is to identify the core attributes of the nursing professionalism. MATERIALS AND METHODS We followed Rodgers' evolutionary method of concept analysis. Texts published in scientific databases...

Richard Masella's "Renewing Professionalism in Dental Education: Overcoming the Market Environment" reveals why professionalism is nearly dead in America; it also shows the good of commerce and the excesses of commercialism in the market. More importantly, it collects and summarizes most of the relevant forms of education currently available to teach professionalism and professional ethics in d...

introduction: teaching medical professionalism is increasingly acknowledged as an important aspect of medical education. the professionalism mini-evaluation exercise (p-mex) is an assessment tool for evaluating medical professionalism, but no studies using it as a self-assessment instrument have been reported. this paper reports on a preliminary investigation of the finnish version of the p-mex...

BACKGROUND Moral competencies and ethical practices of medical professionals are among the desired outcomes of academic training. Unfortunately, academic dishonesty and misconduct are reported from medical colleges across the world. This study investigates the level of academic dishonesty/misconduct among multicultural medical students. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study is to investigate the le...

In addition to pure software engineering educationor training-related topics, topics of interest include education and training in the mathematical, computer science, and engineering backgrounds required for the successful pursuit of software engineering. Papers may also relate to software engineering standards efforts, software engineering curriculum initiatives and similar themes as long as t...

Defining professionalism in this constantly evolving world is not easy. How do you measure degrees of benevolence and compassion? If it is so obvious to our profession, what professionalism is, then why is it so difficult to teach it to medical students and residents? Today's definition of medical professionalism is evolving - from autonomy to accountability, from expert opinion to evidence-bas...