Professionalism and psychiatry: the profession speaks

Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica
Dinesh Bhugra

Abstract

Recently in the USA and the UK, the medical profession as a whole and psychiatry in particular have felt 'deprofessionalised'. This study aimed to explore ideas about professionalism and the threat of deprofessionalisation from psychiatrists themselves. Attendees at three meetings related to the activities of the Royal College of Psychiatrists were invited to respond to a short questionnaire. These were meetings on different days and different people attended these. The questionnaire had only five simple questions. In two meetings, all attendees answered and in the third meeting only two of 20 attendees did so. Seventy-three completed questionnaires were received. Of these, a vast majority, 89% of 66, believed that professionalism is important in modern day clinical practice; key threats to professionalism are the government, the media and other specialties and disciplines. There was broad agreement that the Royal College of Psychiatrists should lead and define professionalism. The ownership of professionalism by the professionals themselves is the most important factor; ethics, standards, attitudes and skills are seen as significant components of professionalism and should be taught early to trainees.

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Mar 7, 2006·The Medical Journal of Australia·Donald H Irvine
Aug 21, 2007·The International Journal of Social Psychiatry·Dinesh Bhugra, Nick Brown

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Dec 31, 2009·Australasian Psychiatry : Bulletin of Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists·Dinesh BhugraMartin Webber
Nov 5, 2014·Social Work·Nora Gustavsson, Ann MacEachron
Jun 1, 2011·Asian Journal of Psychiatry·Dinesh Bhugra, Susham Gupta
Jun 28, 2008·Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica·Dinesh Bhugra
Oct 1, 2008·Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica·Gin S Malhi
Oct 27, 2010·World Psychiatry : Official Journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA)·Norman SartoriusAllan Tasman
Dec 17, 2014·Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica·D Bhugra, A Ventriglio
Sep 12, 2015·The Lancet. Psychiatry·Dinesh Bhugra
Mar 5, 2015·European Psychiatry : the Journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists·D BhugraW Gaebel
Jun 11, 2014·Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine·Dinesh Bhugra, Paul Moran
Apr 1, 2016·Australasian Psychiatry : Bulletin of Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists·Dinesh Bhugra, Antonio Ventriglio
Aug 30, 2013·The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry·Dinesh Bhugra, Gin S Malhi

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