In order to enhance and promote professionalism in medicine, one should expect it, encourage it, and evaluate it. This book is a theory-to-practice text focused on ways to evaluate professional behaviour, written by leaders in the field of medical education and assessment.
Patients who are confident of physicians' intellectual and technical abilities are sometimes not convinced of their professional behavior. Systemic and anecdotal cases of physician misconduct, conflict of interest, and self-interest abound. Many have even come to mistrust physicians as
patient advocates. How can patients trust the intellectual and technical aspects of medical care, but not the professional? In order to enhance and promote professionalism in medicine, one should expect it, encourage it, and evaluate it. By measuring their own professional behavior, physicians
can provide the kind of transparency with which they can regain the trust of patients and society.
Not only patients, but also institutions which accredit organizations have demanded accountability of physicians in their professional behavior. While there has been much lament and a few strong proposals for improving professionalism, no single reliable and valid measure of the success of these
proposals exists. This book is a theory-to-practice text focused on ways to evaluate professional behavior written by leaders in the field of medical education and assessment.
This book provides an in-depth understanding of the challenges of assessing professionalism in medical education...David Thomas Stern has compiled an excellent and useful collection of articles...[and it] is written primarily for medical educators. However, must of the information is useful for anyone involved in the education of health practitioners such as nursing or allied health. This is an essential read for any health educator. It is a well-balanced perspective with excellent consideration of the benefits and drawbacks of a variety of methods currently used to evaluate professionalism in medical and health education.
