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- Title
Reaffirming professionalism through the education community.
- Authors
Reynolds, P. Preston; Reynolds, P P
- Abstract
<bold>Objective: </bold>To determine the role of the clinical training environment and a medical education community in reaffirming medical professionalism among physicians-in-training and faculty.<bold>Data Sources: </bold>Published articles on undergraduate and graduate medical education and sociology works on professionalism were identified through research.<bold>Study Selection: </bold>Studies were selected that illustrated barriers to professionalism in medical education and patient care and the professional conduct of medical students, residents, and faculty.<bold>Results: </bold>Factors that undermined the medical education community were the specialization of medicine, the faculty reward systems, and the service demands of residency because of the economics of health care.<bold>Conclusions: </bold>Establishment of a firm system with a core teaching faculty, creation of mentoring and role modeling programs, implementation of a longitudinal curriculum on medical professionalism, evaluation of physicians on professional conduct, and evaluation of the clinical training environment are suggested as strategies to re-establish an education community and reaffirm professionalism in medicine.
- Subjects
PROFESSIONAL ethics; PHYSICIANS; MEDICAL education
- Publication
Annals of Internal Medicine, 1994, Vol 120, Issue 7, p609
- ISSN
0003-4819
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.7326/0003-4819-120-7-199404010-00013