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Patricia M Surdyk

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PubMed2004

Assessing professionalism: a review of the literature.

Although assessing professionalism poses many challenges, gauging and detecting changes in professionalism is impossible without measurement. This paper is a review of techniques used to assess professionalism during the past 20 years. The authors searched five electronic databases and reference lists from 1982 to 2002. Eighty-eight assessments were retained and organized into content area addressed (i.e. ethics, personal characteristics, comprehensive professionalism, diversity) and type of outcome examined (i.e. affective, cognitive, behavioral, environmental). Instead of creating new professionalism assessments, existing assessments should be improved. Also, more studies on the predictive validity of assessments and their use as part of formative evaluation systems are recommended. Based on the review, suggestions are presented for assessing medical students, resident physicians and practicing physicians.

Educational Measurement↗
PubMed2003

Professionalism: identifying current themes.

PURPOSE OF REVIEW: This review analyzes the literature on medical professionalism in order to inform further study, educational activity, and reflective practice for all phases of a physician's professional development from medical school through practice. RECENT FINDINGS: Several themes emerged from an analysis of the writing about medical professionalism during the past year. A number of authors attempted to identify concrete behaviors associated with attributes and characteristics used to define professionalism. These behaviors in turn became the focus of teaching and assessment activities primarily conducted with medical students and residents. Educators who attempted to assess professionalism achieved some modest success in reporting valid and reliable results of their efforts. Each of these activities points to a systemic component of professionalism that includes five broad categories of relationships in which physicians engage. All five categories are important to understanding and acting on the values and attitudes required by professionalism in medicine. SUMMARY: Competence to practice medicine includes the ability of physicians to demonstrate professionalism in all the relationships in which they engage. The attributes and characteristics used to define professionalism contribute to recognizing the behaviors that should be apparent not only in the physician-to-patient relationship which is at its core, but also in relationships with other physicians, colleagues in the health care system, society, and oneself. All these relationships must be appropriately aligned with the values and attitudes that form a collective understanding of professionalism that has emerged within the profession.

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