Pupils are never naughty, just "unprofessional"; for lateness, lack of homework and classroom disruption, they lose some of the 50 "professionalism points" with which they start each week.
In this way the Diagram of the Integrated Health Professional becomes a tool for emerging professionalism, a point of reference for interrogation of student professional development as well as an organising framework for inculcating professionalism.
While the idea may be a tough sell to a 14-year-old, talk regularly about how you practice social media professionalism and point out examples of social media gone wrong whenever you see it.
We are depending and living on their professionalism at this point".
In the Kenyan health system where considerable reliance is still placed on professionalism, the starting point for its development should be the undergraduate medical programme, subsequently reinforced by postgraduate programmes and continuous professional development.
In total, 64.3% of the students (164 of 255) had witnessed a lapse of professionalism at some point of their training (Table 1), and this was more evident in the clerkship (72.3%, 68 of 94), compared to the pre-clerkship (59.6%, 96 of 161).
The Hospital-based Prevocational Progress Review Form requires supervisors and junior doctors to rate the junior doctor's performance on 18 questions relating to clinical management, communication and professionalism on a 4 point scale ranging from clearly below the expected level = 1, borderline/requires assistance = 2, at expected level = 3, and clearly above the expected level = 4.
The PRF-ETSA requires supervisors and junior doctors to rate the junior doctor's performance on 18 questions relating to clinical management, communication and professionalism on a 4 point scale ranging from clearly below the expected level = 1, borderline/requires assistance = 2, at expected level = 3, and clearly above the expected level = 4.
This comes to our point on professionalism.
The development of professionalism is central, as pointed out in Medical professionalism in the new millennium: A physicians' charter [ 1].
