Medical Professionalism for Doctors

1. PROFESSIONALISM
Prof. IMRAN IQBAL

2. Doctors are Professionals

3. Being a professional
Using the knowledge and skills
to help the patients

4. PROFESSIONALISM
• Expertise
• Dedication

5. Being a professional
• Adhering to a set of values
• Behaving according to standards
• Being accountable to patients

6. PROFESSIONALISM
• Skill
• Good judgement
• Polite behaviour

7. Professional Behaviours
• Commitment to learning
• Attention to patient care

8. Professional Behaviours
• Responsive to needs of society
• Respect for patients
• Empathy
• Accountability
• Commitment to excellence
• Self-reflection

9. Professional Behaviours
• Comitment to learning
• Observing duty time
• Attention to patient care
• Abide by your contracts

10. Unprofessional behaviours
• Lack of responsibility
• Lapses in patient evaluation and
management
• Uncared remarks

11. Malpractice
• Write unachieved qualifications
• Doing clinics during training
• Giving false certificates
• Receiving personal gifts from Pharma
• Giving or Receiving commission for services

12. Promoting Professional Behaviours
• Mentoring
• Role models
• Culture of professionalism
• Self-reflection / self - audit

13. How to evaluate professionalism ?
• Incident reports
• Peer assessment
• Evaluation by patients

14. What to do ?
• Change the behaviour
• Change the character

15. Career Guidance

16. Training completed
• CH & ICH, Lahore
• Aga Khan Hospital, Karachi
• Ireland
• Saudi Arabia