Based on the assumption that all health care professionals should be knowledgeable, empathic and reflective, the diagram provides students and educators with a visual tool for investigating the subjective and objective dimensions of professionalism.
Mounrouxe and colleagues explored explicit discourses on professionalism among students from three medical schools through focus group discussions; the authors identified 19 dimensions of professionalism, and found that discourses varied between pre-clinical and clinical students and also between schools [ 7].
The conceptualization of professionalism (dimension 1) employed in the PD is grounded in the literature on professional knowledge and decision-making.
The IHP diagram is used to frame the dimensions, relevance and dynamics of professionalism as these pertain to each student's personal learning journey, not only in the BP/BHP courses but also across the other courses they take in becoming a professional healthcare practitioner.
On the one hand, this requires a transformed/modernised understanding of professionalism and professionality among teachers.
In addition, the dimension of organizational development and professionalism and financial planning were consistent with The Healthcare Leadership Alliance and the American College of Healthcare Executives [ 11].
The Professionalism Inventory Scale was used to measure attitudinal attributes of professionalism and its five dimensions (use of professional organizations as major referent groups, belief in public service, autonomy, self-regulation, and a sense of calling).
The concept of professionalism embeds two distinctive aspects of the professional lives of teachers—social and individual along with professionalism and professionality (Hoyle 1974).
Learning about professionalism provides a generic foundation on which health science students can build a shared appreciation of the intrapersonal, interpersonal and public dimensions of their professional behaviour, parameters and responsibilities [ 11, 12].
SERVICE: A model of professionalism.
