© 2003 Canadian Medical Association or its licensors Some time ago my wife, a physician, overheard through the curtain of a patient’s room what she described as the worst patient–doctor interaction she had ever heard. The resident came in, introduced himself for the first time and, within about a minute, without offering the patient a chance to say what she knew or how she felt, bluntly told th...

Introduction: Medical professionalism as a main ability ofphysicians is very important just like its teaching and learning.This study investigated medical professionalism experts’perspectives and experiences about professionalism as a steptowards developing a medical professionalism curriculum.Methods: A qualitative approach was adopted for this study.The dat...

OBJECTIVE To understand the prevalence of healthcare students' witnessing or participating in something that they think unethical (professionalism dilemmas) during workplace learning and examine whether differences exist in moral distress intensity resulting from these experiences according to gender and the frequency of occurrence. DESIGN Two cross-sectional online questionnaires of UK medic...

The profession should pay more attention to the professional ethics and morals that form basis of how they do their work. accountant must fully adhere a set moral ethical standards because are crucial for execution task. This study attempts ascertain accounting students’ perceptions comprehend Financial Accounting Standards (SAK) Moral Ethics Professional Public Accountants (SPAP) on Profession...

In response to Dr. Ezra Griffith's essay, we support the view that forensic practice cannot be cleanly divided from its ethics foundation in medical and general psychiatric practice. Personal and professional values cannot be separated in formulating a unified theory of ethics for professionalism in forensic practice. We support Dr. Griffith's narrative perspective and offer a delineation of ho...

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...

BACKGROUND Medical professionalism as a set of behaviours that transcends personal values, beliefs and attitudes to incorporate ethical and moral principles is considered a covenant between society and the practice of medicine. The Bachelor of Clinical Medical Practice (BCMP) a three year professional degree was launched at the University of the Witwatersrand in January 2009 in response to a do...

In this paper, practical strategies are proposed to improve the quality of teachers in higher vocational colleges. Research and analyses have shown that key improving colleges lies improvement professionalism, subject knowledge, teaching ability. Thus, following proposed: strengthen teachers’ moral development, establish a teacher training system, focus on curriculum construction method innovat...

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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...