A degree of professionalism

Using 360-degree multi-source feedback to evaluate professionalism in surgery departments: An Iranian perspective

Background: Medical professionalism helps physicians adopt a proper and good healing action for the patients based on their particular circumstance. This study was conducted to assess professionalism in surgical residents, using a 360-degree evaluation technique in several teaching hospitals in Tehran, Iran. Methods: This study was conducted on all the second and third year surgery residents...

Learning Skills of Professionalism: a Student-Led Professionalism Curriculum.

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...

Development of a Framework for Assessing Professionalism in Medical Students

Background: professionalism assessment is one of the most difficult issues in medical education. In related references, it is recommended that professionalism assessment should be according to the status and attention to culture of each society. The purpose of the study was to design an appropriate framework in order to assess professionalism among medical students of Mashhad University of Medi...

Professionalism.

Not a loss of professionalism.

Recently I came across a series of articles authored by Dr Stange and his colleagues that were published in the Annals of Family Medicine.1-7 They immediately captivated me. It was Dr Stange’s article on the science of connectedness that particularly, well, connected with me.2 While many of the concepts and theories of Dr Stange were unknown to me, I was struck by how strongly they resonated wi...