Defining professionalism

Defining and measuring construct of interprofessional professionalism.

The Interprofessional Professionalism Collaborative (IPC), convened in 2006, currently consists of 11 national organizations representing health professions programs at the doctoral entry level, and is developing a framework of "interprofessional professionalism" (IPP) around observable behaviors that illustrate what professionalism looks like in the context of interprofessional collaborations ...

Defining the competency of professionalism at two military medical centers

The subject of professionalism has received much attention in recent literature, and in the United States is listed in both the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) standards1-4 and the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)5 clinical competencies as an essential component of pre-and postgraduate medical education. While definitions and assessment methods for profe...

Defining competency-based evaluation objectives in family medicine: professionalism.

OBJECTIVE To develop and describe observable evaluation objectives for assessing competence in professionalism, which are grounded in the experience of practising physicians. DESIGN Modified nominal group technique. SETTING The College of Family Physicians of Canada in Mississauga, Ont. PARTICIPANTS An expert group of 7 family physicians and 1 educational consultant, all of whom had exper...

Defining professionalism in medical education: a systematic review.

INTRODUCTION We undertook a systematic review and narrative synthesis of the literature to identify how professionalism is defined in the medical education literature. METHODS Eligible studies included any articles published between 1999 and 2009 inclusive presenting viewpoints, opinions, or empirical research on defining medical professionalism. RESULTS We identified 195 papers on the topi...

Professionalism.