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...

OBJECTIVE To assess the perspectives and preferences of medical students and residents regarding professionalism and ethics education. METHODS A new written survey with 124 items (scale: "strongly disagree" = 1, "strongly agree" = 9) was sent to all medical students (n=308) and PGY 1-3 residents (n=233) at one academic center. RESULTS Of the 336 participants (200 students, 65% response; 136...

The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) has declared medical professionalism to be a competence analogous to competence at medical practice. Medical educators accordingly seek to develop ways in which to teach and assess medical professionalism as they now teach and assess clinical medicine. The author contends that professionalism is medical morality and that while bei...

BACKGROUND Medical students have unique information about peers' professionalism but are reluctant to share it through peer assessment. METHOD Students (231 of 375; 62%) in one school replied to a survey about whether various characteristics of peer assessment (e.g., who receives the assessment, its anonymity, implications for the classmate) would prevent or encourage their participation. R...

Objectives: to translate, adapt cross-culturally and validate into Brazilian Portuguese the following instrument: "Self-assessment of communication skills and professionalism in residents" for the nursing professional, and to determine if personal characteristics and performance of the nurse interfere in the self-assessment about professionalism and interpersonal communication. Method: quanti...

OBJECTIVE To analyse and interpret the role of faculty members in assessing professionalism in a well-established medical school in the UK. STUDY DESIGN A qualitative study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY School of Medicine, University of Glasgow, UK, from February to July 2011. METHODOLOGY Used a constructivist approach, a purposive sampling technique was applied to interview those faculty ...

In this issue, Brenner and colleagues report a correlation between the frequency of negative comments in the "dean's letter" and future problems during a psychiatry residency program. Their study makes an important contribution to the body of literature on factors that predict professionalism-related performance issues during residency and suggests the importance of dependable data that can be ...

Physicians' professionalism and humanism have become central foci of the efforts of medical educators as the public, various accrediting and licensing agencies, and the profession itself have expressed concerns about the apparent erosion of physicians' competency in these aspects of the art, rather than the science, of medicine. Of the many obstacles to enhancing trainees' skills in these domai...

Increasing attention has been focused on developing professionalism in medical school graduates. Unfortunately, the culture of academic medical centers and the behaviors that faculty model are often incongruent with our image of professionalism. The need for improved role modeling, better assessment of student behavior, and focused faculty development is reviewed. We propose that the incentive ...