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One year later, the American Association of Medical Colleges identified professionalism as a fundamental quality of physicians in its Medical School Objectives Project, a consensus statement formalizing the attributes required of all graduating U.S. medical students [ 18, 32].
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While identifying professionalism, compassion and patient-centered behavior was once an "I-know-it-when-I-see-it endeavor," he said, "deans and faculty can now weigh actual indicators of humanism on evaluations".
Four key determinants of experiences of care were identified: staff professionalism, which included information and explanation, being calm in a crisis, appearing confident and in control, and conversely not listening to the woman; staff empathy, which included caring and emotional support, and encouragement and reassurance; involvement of the father; and birth environment.
Accrediting bodies now recognize the importance of developing the professionalism competency, by setting standards that require medical schools to identify where professionalism is addressed and how it is evaluated within the formal curriculum.
Institutions must be able to identify where professionalism is being formally addressed including when and how it is being evaluated.
The elements of teaching and learning professionalism identified by the students were categorized into the formal, informal and hidden curriculum.
The report also describes seven issues that "challenge or diminish the previously identified elements of professionalism"; these include: abuse of power, arrogance, greed, misrepresentation, impairment, lack of conscientiousness, and conflict of interest (acceptance of gifts, collaboration with industry).
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].
If a problem with a learner's professionalism is identified, the possibilities of personal stressors or substance abuse should always be considered.
In addition, students in our study identified that evaluation of professionalism was often seen as ineffective.
We were gratified that the most common professionalism theme identified by responders, was "respect for patients".
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