Developing and evaluating professionalism

Medical Teacher
Melih ElcinNural Kiper

Abstract

Professional behaviour, being one of the domains of professionalism, is an area of medical education that has long been of concern to medical educators. At Hacettepe University, our main goal is to have students become conscious of professional identity, values, responsibilities and the physician-patient relationship. We welcome our new students with an opening ceremony on their first day and two months later, the students start the course called "Health-Illness Concepts and Medical Professional Identity". Students are expected to discuss the subjects given to them as scenarios or arguments. The aim of our study is to determine whether the course leads to a positive change in students' attitudes, indicating the attainment of those attributes that reflect professionalism. On the first and the last days of the course, a questionnaire was delivered to the students. Any positive change in preferences between the two questionnaires is identified as an achievement of that attribute. As a result we found that in all of the seven attributes there were positive changes in the students' attitudes. Positive changes varied from 48% to 84% and all were statistically significant. Using more interactive techniques helped the students to make ...Continue Reading

References

Feb 4, 1998·BMJ : British Medical Journal·S R Cruess, R L Cruess
Jun 30, 2000·Academic Medicine : Journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges·D Wear, B Castellani
Mar 27, 2001·Lancet·A StephensonJ Sugarman
Mar 29, 2001·Teaching and Learning in Medicine·C J LazarusR Whitlock
May 24, 2001·Medical Teacher·Robert Cohen
Jun 6, 2002·Medical Education·Paul HaidetJohn C Rogers

❮ Previous
Next ❯

Citations

Jul 10, 2008·Journal of General Internal Medicine·Lindsay A ThompsonNicole Paradise Black
Sep 10, 2009·Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine : PEHM·Shaheen E LakhanCyndi Laird
Mar 22, 2014·Medical Education Online·Rachel H EllawayLisa Graves
Aug 19, 2007·Medical Teacher·Tsuen-Chiuan TsaiClaudio Violato
Feb 15, 2012·Clinics in Dermatology·Amit Garg, Jane M Grant-Kels
Jan 7, 2011·Medical Education·Mirabelle A Schaub-de JongJanke Cohen-Schotanus
May 6, 2015·Academic Pediatrics·David A TurnerUNKNOWN Education in Pediatric Intensive Care Investigators
Jul 21, 2010·The International Journal of Social Psychiatry·Dinesh Bhugra
May 28, 2010·Academic Medicine : Journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges·Jakob Ousager, Helle Johannessen
Jul 23, 2013·Pediatric Critical Care Medicine : a Journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies·David A TurnerUNKNOWN Education in Pediatric Intensive Care (EPIC) Investigators
Nov 6, 2020·Journal of Medical Education and Curricular Development·Kuang Teck TayLalit Kumar Radha Krishna

❮ Previous
Next ❯

Related Concepts

Trending Feeds

COVID-19

Coronaviruses encompass a large family of viruses that cause the common cold as well as more serious diseases, such as the ongoing outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19; formally known as 2019-nCoV). Coronaviruses can spread from animals to humans; symptoms include fever, cough, shortness of breath, and breathing difficulties; in more severe cases, infection can lead to death. This feed covers recent research on COVID-19.

Blastomycosis

Blastomycosis fungal infections spread through inhaling Blastomyces dermatitidis spores. Discover the latest research on blastomycosis fungal infections here.

Nuclear Pore Complex in ALS/FTD

Alterations in nucleocytoplasmic transport, controlled by the nuclear pore complex, may be involved in the pathomechanism underlying multiple neurodegenerative diseases including Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Frontotemporal Dementia. Here is the latest research on the nuclear pore complex in ALS and FTD.

Applications of Molecular Barcoding

The concept of molecular barcoding is that each original DNA or RNA molecule is attached to a unique sequence barcode. Sequence reads having different barcodes represent different original molecules, while sequence reads having the same barcode are results of PCR duplication from one original molecule. Discover the latest research on molecular barcoding here.

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Chronic fatigue syndrome is a disease characterized by unexplained disabling fatigue; the pathology of which is incompletely understood. Discover the latest research on chronic fatigue syndrome here.

Evolution of Pluripotency

Pluripotency refers to the ability of a cell to develop into three primary germ cell layers of the embryo. This feed focuses on the mechanisms that underlie the evolution of pluripotency. Here is the latest research.

Position Effect Variegation

Position Effect Variagation occurs when a gene is inactivated due to its positioning near heterochromatic regions within a chromosome. Discover the latest research on Position Effect Variagation here.

STING Receptor Agonists

Stimulator of IFN genes (STING) are a group of transmembrane proteins that are involved in the induction of type I interferon that is important in the innate immune response. The stimulation of STING has been an active area of research in the treatment of cancer and infectious diseases. Here is the latest research on STING receptor agonists.

Microbicide

Microbicides are products that can be applied to vaginal or rectal mucosal surfaces with the goal of preventing, or at least significantly reducing, the transmission of sexually transmitted infections. Here is the latest research on microbicides.

Related Papers

JAMA : the Journal of the American Medical Association
Liselotte N DyrbyeTait D Shanafelt
Academic Psychiatry : the Journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry
Laura Weiss RobertsTeddy D Warner
© 2022 Meta ULC. All rights reserved