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Professionalism: What is it? - 1 views

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      CanMEDS Professional: 1. demonstrate commitment to their patients, profession, and society through ethical practice 2. demonstrate a commitment to their patients, profession, and society through participation in profession-led regulation 3. demonstrate a commitment to physician health and sustainable practice
  • According the CanMEDs framework, developed by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, the professional role of physicians is defined as a commitment to “the health and well-being of individuals and society through ethical practice, professionled regulation, and high personal standards of behaviour”
  • The Canadian Medical Association considers the three major features of medical professionalism to be clinical independence, self-regulation and the ethic of care
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  • The needs of the patient should always trump the financial priorities of the physician. Every skill, every decision, every morsel of scientific knowledge — all are to be used to better serve patients.
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Professionalism: The view from outside medicine - 2 views

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      Relevant evidence on this statement would be nice to avoid a "kids these days" narrative. Any suggestions or sources would be appreciated.
  • There tends to be an attitude within the profession that doctors are inherently “good,” that they are either altruistic or, with gentle prodding, can become altruistic. A more realistic outlook, however, might be that people enter various professions for various reasons and with varying levels of competence, and doctors are no different.
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    "Evaluating professionalism in medicine from the outside, as a neutral observer rather than a passionate practitioner, can provide insights unlikely to arise within the profession itself. "
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Editing Wikipedia Pages for Med School Credit - NYTimes.com - 1 views

  • Wikipedia editing will force students to think clearly and avoid jargon, he said. “We do a great job in helping them talk to doctors, but we don’t do as good a job in helping them speak to the public,” he added.
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      #Communicator #Professional #CanMEDS
  • These articles are submitted to a group from Translators Without Borders that produces medical articles for Wikipedias in languages spoken in countries that often lack high-quality medical information.
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      #HealthAdvocate #CanMEDS #Collaborator
  • He said he planned to see the students for two days at the start to plot the writing and editing requirements, then track their work on Wikipedia. While some might fear that his students would cut corners, Dr. Azzam said: “I am working with medical students — professionals in training — who are highly motivated. I’m not worried about them slacking.”
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      multiaccess model. #Professional #Scholar #CanMEDS
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