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Current Practices in Assessing Professionalism in United States and Canadian Allopathic Medical Students and Residents.
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13 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Effects of the Hidden Curriculum in Medical Education: Scoping Review.JMIR medical education · 2025Article
- Ethical issues in unprofessional behavior of residents who dispute dismissal: ten year analysis of case law in hospital-based specialties.BMC medical ethics · 2025Article
- Factors leading to lapses in professional behaviour of Gynae residents in Pakistan: a study reflecting through the lenses of patients and family, consultants and residents.BMC medical education · 2024Article
- Dismissed Psychiatry Residents Who Appeal: Exploring Unprofessional Behavior.Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry · 2023Article
- Hidden Curriculum in Medical Residency Programs: A Scoping Review.Journal of advances in medical education & professionalism · 2022Article
- Assessment of Medical Professionalism among Students and Faculty Members of Shalamar Medical and Dental College, Lahore.Journal of advances in medical education & professionalism · 2021Article
- Teaching Ethics and Professionalism: A National Survey of Ophthalmology Residency Program Directors.Journal of academic ophthalmology (2017) · 2021Article
- Communication training is inadequate: the role of deception, non-verbal communication, and cultural proficiency.Medical education online · 2020Article
- Assessment of Perceptions of Professionalism Among Faculty, Trainees, Staff, and Students in a Large University-Based Health System.JAMA network open · 2020Article
- Understanding Unprofessionalism in Residents.Journal of graduate medical education · 2020Article
- Professionalism Milestones Assessments Used by Emergency Medicine Residency Programs: A Cross-sectional Survey.The western journal of emergency medicine · 2019Article
- Student's Inventory of Professionalism (SIP): A Tool to Assess Attitudes towards Professional Development Based on Palliative Care Undergraduate Education.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Article
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Abstract
Professionalism is a critically important competency that must be evaluated in medical trainees but is a complex construct that is hard to assess. A systematic review was undertaken to give insight into the current best practices for assessment of professionalism in medical trainees and to identify new research priorities in the field. A search was conducted on PubMed for behavioral assessments of medical students and residents among the United States and Canadian allopathic schools in the last 15 years. An initial search yielded 594 results, 28 of which met our inclusion criteria. Our analysis indicated that there are robust generic definitions of the major attributes of medical professionalism. The most commonly used assessment tools are survey instruments that use Likert scales tied to attributes of professionalism. While significant progress has been made in this field in recent years, several opportunities for system-wide improvement were identified that require further research. These include a paucity of information about assessment reliability, the need for rater training, a need to better define competency in professionalism according to learner level (preclinical, clerkship, resident etc.) and ways to remediate lapses in professionalism. Student acceptance of assessment of professionalism may be increased if assessment tools are shifted to better incorporate feedback. Tackling the impact of the hidden curriculum in which students may observe lapses in professionalism by faculty and other health care providers is another priority for further study.
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