ArticleJournal of medical education and curricular development
Assessing Professionalism in Medicine - A Scoping Review of Assessment Tools from 1990 to 2018.
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- Incorporating equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) into the education and assessment of professionalism for healthcare professionals and trainees: a scoping review.BMC medical education · 2024Article
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- Role modelling in professional identity formation: a systematic scoping review.BMC medical education · 2023Article
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- What are the Attitudes of Medical Students at Jazan University Toward Professionalism?Advances in medical education and practice · 2023Article
- Professionalism among academic educational leaders: A concept analysis.Journal of advances in medical education & professionalism · 2022Article
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- Translating and validating a Japanese version of the instrument for patient assessment of medical professionalism (J-IPAMP): a cross-sectional survey.BMC medical education · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundMedical professionalism enhances doctor-patient relationships and advances patient-centric care. However, despite its pivotal role, the concept of medical professionalism remains diversely understood, taught and thus poorly assessed with Singapore lacking a linguistically sensitive, context specific and culturally appropriate assessment tool. A scoping review of assessments of professionalism in medicine was thus carried out to better guide its understanding.
methodsArksey and O'Malley's (2005) approach to scoping reviews was used to identify appropriate publications featured in four databases published between 1 January 1990 and 31 December 2018. Seven members of the research team employed thematic analysis to evaluate the selected articles.
results3799 abstracts were identified, 138 full-text articles reviewed and 74 studies included. The two themes identified were the context-specific nature of assessments and competency-based stages in medical professionalism.
conclusionsPrevailing assessments of professionalism in medicine must contend with differences in setting, context and levels of professional development as these explicate variances found in existing assessment criteria and approaches. However, acknowledging the significance of context-specific competency-based stages in medical professionalism will allow the forwarding of guiding principles to aid the design of a culturally-sensitive and practical approach to assessing professionalism.
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