The strongest association we have found between the Conscientiousness Index and professionalism suggests that conscientiousness accounts for 25% of the variance in professionalism.
Ours was not a longitudinal study; nonetheless, the divergence in the way first years and the fifth years conceptualized professionalism suggests that the latter have undergone a shift in attitude during their training.
Students' narratives concerning professionalism were punctuated by pauses and hesitations, and the use of tautological definitions – 'I see professionalism as professional behaviour' or 'acting professionally' – suggested lack of clarity.
In Bryden et al's study of faculty members' experiences of teaching professionalism participants suggested that the formal curriculum provided the correct forum to discuss 'institutional and legislative codes', for example [ 4].
If curricula continue to teach specific factual information they not only miss a key opportunity to discuss certainty but may also collude with students that cultural diversity is about facts rather than self reflection, personal development and professionalism as suggested by several authors in the field [ 39, 52].
The posture, demeanor and equipment that Karim and the other Popular Committees fighters encountered in the clearing suggested a professionalism that is largely lacking from many militias in Lebanon and Syria — save for Hezbollah.
In 1912, Selbie, then General Manager, thought that some professionalism was needed and suggested a company be formed to take over from the Surplus Lands Committee to develop estates near the railway.
This possibility may at least partly explain the poor psychometric properties of the professionalism items, which suggest that SRQs may not be an appropriate measure or predicator of professionalism, at least for undergraduate medical students.
One student pertinently pointed out that learning about professionalism should not occur solely in the final year of medical school and another suggested that medical professionalism should be a vertical theme in the curriculum.
Michaels's reputation for professionalism and care suggests that these more subliminal differences principally derive from the momentum of his decades of N.F.L. play-by-play.
