The survey collected data on demographics, year of course, viewing of medical television programs, perception of programs' realism, depiction of ethics, professionalism and role models.
However, as evidenced by the sentiments of the focus group, the professional identity formation is foremost at the time of clinical challenges, and leaves the "burden" for learning professionalism on role modeling.
While Peggy Makins, writing for Woman in the 1950s, recalled a ban on the word "bottom", Rayner – contributing to Woman's Own a decade later – relied on her nursing training to bring a no-nonsense professionalism to the role.
Here, we review the elements of professionalism and the role of professionalism in medical education.
United Nations Public Service Awards The United Nations Public Service Awards recognizes the institutional contribution made by public servants to enhance the role, professionalism, image and visibility of the public service (ECOSOC decision 2000/231).
This reflected poorly on the CMWs' professionalism and her role was further undermined by the low quality of clinical services given to the referred patients.
In particular, more formalized curriculum should be inserted into clerkship where currently there is very little time dedicated to professionalism and where role modeling is so important and diminished professionalism is at risk.
To address some of the contributory elements to the hidden curriculum, we have adopted a "Complementary Approach" to Professionalism encouraging positive role models and establishing a staged approach to increase awareness and "guided interventions" [ 43].
One of the consistent themes emerging out of research in health professionalism education is that role models are the primary influence of students' professional development[ 24, 36- 39].
Accreditation of postgraduate training programs based on utilization of the CanMEDs roles has gone a long way to ensure these roles, including professionalism, are explicitly taught, that learning programs develop objective driven curricula based on these roles, and that programs evaluate (at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels) the professionalism competency.
