Measuring 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 ...

Professionalism.

Measuring professionalism: a review of studies with instruments reported in the literature between 1982 and 2002.

PURPOSE To describe the measurement properties of instruments reported in the literature that faculty might use to measure professionalism in medical students and residents. METHOD The authors reviewed studies published between 1982 and 2002 that had been located using Medline and four other databases. A national panel of 12 experts in measurement and research in medical education extracted d...

On professionalism.

This engineer’s view of professionalism is not far removed from the medical profession’s view, articulated by Sir Donald Irvine in his recent Duncan Memorial Lecture.2 Engineers developed their civic role through the huge engineering projects of canal and iron bridge construction during the nineteenth century, giving Thomas Telford both the technical and the moral experience which led his young...

A complementary approach to promoting professionalism: identifying, measuring, and addressing unprofessional behaviors.

Vanderbilt University School of Medicine (VUSM) employs several strategies for teaching professionalism. This article, however, reviews VUSM's alternative, complementary approach: identifying, measuring, and addressing unprofessional behaviors. The key to this alternative approach is a supportive infrastructure that includes VUSM leadership's commitment to addressing unprofessional/disruptive b...