Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Foreword by William M. Sullivan
- Introduction
- PART ONE WHAT IS TO BE TAUGHT
- PART TWO THEORY
- PART THREE PRINCIPLES
- 4 Principles for Designing a Program for the Teaching and Learning of Professionalism at the Undergraduate Level
- 5 Resident Formation – A Journey to Authenticity: Designing a Residency Program That Educes Professionalism
- 6 Supporting Teaching and Learning of Professionalism – Changing the Educational Environment and Students' “Navigational Skills”
- 7 Assessment and Remediation in Programs of Teaching Professionalism
- 8 Developing Professionalism across the Generations
- 9 Faculty Development for Teaching and Learning Professionalism
- 10 The Relationship between Teaching Professionalism and Licensing and Accrediting Bodies
- 11 Educating the Public about Professionalism: From Rhetoric to Reality
- PART FOUR PRACTICE: CASE STUDIES IN TEACHING PROFESSIONALISM ACROSS THE CONTINUUM
- APPENDIX A Definitions of Professionalism
- APPENDIX B Core Attributes of Professionalism
- APPENDIX C The Teaching of Professionalism: Vignettes for Discussion
- APPENDIX D A Matrix for “Matching” Teaching Methods to Attributes
- APPENDIX E Sample Grid for Use with Discussion of Vignettes
- APPENDIX F Sample Questions to Guide Discussion about the Social Contract: Small-Group Leaders' Guide with Suggested Responses
- APPENDIX G Professionalism Program for Residents: Suggested Outline for Small Group Facilitators
- APPENDIX H Sample Evaluation Form for Residents' Half-Day Program on Professionalism
- Index
- References
4 - Principles for Designing a Program for the Teaching and Learning of Professionalism at the Undergraduate Level
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Foreword by William M. Sullivan
- Introduction
- PART ONE WHAT IS TO BE TAUGHT
- PART TWO THEORY
- PART THREE PRINCIPLES
- 4 Principles for Designing a Program for the Teaching and Learning of Professionalism at the Undergraduate Level
- 5 Resident Formation – A Journey to Authenticity: Designing a Residency Program That Educes Professionalism
- 6 Supporting Teaching and Learning of Professionalism – Changing the Educational Environment and Students' “Navigational Skills”
- 7 Assessment and Remediation in Programs of Teaching Professionalism
- 8 Developing Professionalism across the Generations
- 9 Faculty Development for Teaching and Learning Professionalism
- 10 The Relationship between Teaching Professionalism and Licensing and Accrediting Bodies
- 11 Educating the Public about Professionalism: From Rhetoric to Reality
- PART FOUR PRACTICE: CASE STUDIES IN TEACHING PROFESSIONALISM ACROSS THE CONTINUUM
- APPENDIX A Definitions of Professionalism
- APPENDIX B Core Attributes of Professionalism
- APPENDIX C The Teaching of Professionalism: Vignettes for Discussion
- APPENDIX D A Matrix for “Matching” Teaching Methods to Attributes
- APPENDIX E Sample Grid for Use with Discussion of Vignettes
- APPENDIX F Sample Questions to Guide Discussion about the Social Contract: Small-Group Leaders' Guide with Suggested Responses
- APPENDIX G Professionalism Program for Residents: Suggested Outline for Small Group Facilitators
- APPENDIX H Sample Evaluation Form for Residents' Half-Day Program on Professionalism
- Index
- References
Summary
Until recent years, the subject of professionalism was not addressed formally in the medical curriculum. Students became professionals without being aware of it, with the assumption being that they patterned their behavior on that of respected role models. It was only when both society and the profession came to believe that medicine's professionalism had been eroded by forces arising both inside and outside of the medical profession that it was deemed necessary to teach professionalism as a distinct subject, something that is now required by accrediting and certifying bodies. Without question professionalism can be taught and learned in many different educational settings, using a variety of pedagogic tools and methods. However, as faculties of medicine have gained experience in teaching professionalism, common threads have emerged. It has become possible to outline a series of principles that can guide the actions of those designing, implementing, and administering programs aimed at promoting the acquisition of knowledge about professionalism and the behaviors characteristic of a professional. It is the goal of this chapter to outline these principles.
Any set of principles must be compatible with the complex nature of the medical curriculum through which individuals become transformed from members of the lay public into skilled professionals. There has not always been unanimity of opinion on how best to organize the teaching of professionalism. In part, this relates to individual and institutional approaches to the issue, with two schools of thought being predominant.
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- Teaching Medical Professionalism , pp. 73 - 92Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2008