Background & Objective: Professionalism and interprofessional cooperation are essential capabilities of health team members. Educational systems must use an appropriate approach for training and evaluating these capabilities. The present study aimed to investigate the adherence of surgical residents and personnel to interprofessional professionalism behavior in the operating units using the int...

BACKGROUND Medical schools must address the fact that students embarking on careers in medicine are idealistic but have a vague understanding of the values and characteristics that define medical professionalism. Traditionally, we have relied primarily on unsystematic role modeling and lectures or seminars on related topics to teach professionalism. METHODS A committee of students and a facul...

(Fam Med 2004;36(6):390-2.) Editor’s Note: In this second of a two-part series on the office-based teaching and assessment of professionalism, George D. Harris, MD, MS, of the Department of Community and Family Medicine at the University of Missouri-Kansas City describes common situations in which the preceptor can teach professionalism and important factors that contribute to the assessment of...

background and purpose: professionalism refers to the professional character and manners of an individual, which encompasses different attributes and a lifestyle reflecting responsibility and commitment. effective communication between physicians and nurses enhances the quality of patient care, reduces medical errors. over the years, there have been repeated admonitions to improve nurse-physici...

Understanding medical professionalism and its evaluation is essential to ensuring that physicians graduate with the requisite knowledge and skills in this domain. It is important to consider the context in which behaviours occur, along with tensions between competing values and the individual’s approach to resolving such conflicts. However, too much emphasis on behaviours can be misleading, as ...

BACKGROUND Transformation of medical students to become medical professionals is a core competency required for physicians in the 21st century. Role modeling was traditionally the key method of transmitting this skill. Medical schools are developing medical curricula which are explicit in ensuring students develop the professional competency and understand the values and attributes of this role...

professionalism is the foundation of trust on which the doctor-patient relationship is built. this study was performed to measure professionalism in iranian physical medicine and rehabilitation residents as a baseline assessment tool for future studies. this was a descriptive study. the persian version of the american board of internal medicine (abim) questionnaire was distributed among all the...

BACKGROUND Accrediting bodies now recognize the importance of developing the professionalism competency, by setting standards that require medical schools to identify where professionalism is addressed and how it is evaluated within the formal curriculum. The objective of this study was to compare how professionalism competency is formally addressed in the curricula of Canadian medical schools,...