President's Message Professionalism: Disclosure

Promoting faculty professionalism: a case-based approach

INTRODUCTION Professionalism is a key attribute for health professionals. Yet, it is unknown how much faculty development is directed toward skills and behaviours of faculty professionalism. Faculty professionalism includes boundaries in teacher-student relationships, self-reflection, assuring one's own fitness for duty, and maintaining confidentiality when appropriate. METHODS For five years...

Renewing professionalism in dental education: overcoming the market environment.

The most important mission of dental education is development of student professionalism. It is only within the context of professionalism that specialized knowledge and technical expertise find meaning. Altruism, integrity, caring, community focus, and commitment to excellence are attributes of professionalism. Its backbone is the obligation of service to people before service to self--a socia...

President's message: reasoning behind conclusions in psychiatric reports and testimony.

Potential for reducing health care costs by public and patient education. Summary of selected studies.

PATIENT AND PUBLIC HEALTH EDUCATION PROGRAMS remain one of the most neglected if not one of the most obscure areas in health care. The Department of Health, Education, and Welfare's Report to the President's Committee on Health Education (1) states that of $18.2 billion allocated for health purposes, DHEW estimates that it spends no more than $44 million on health education, about one-fifth of ...

Ethics and professionalism: can there be consensus? An editorial comment on the report of the ACCF/AHA Consensus Conference on Professionalism and Ethics.

Ethical behavior is defined in terms of morality and is recognized as the mark of a good and decent person and, likewise, of a trustworthy organization. Although we value it in all aspects of life and have been dismayed by its flagrant absence in some modern examples in the business world and in government, it is, of course, most critical for those individuals and organizations whose actions to...