Importance of professionalism and key factors for professionalism

1. Healthcare
pprofessionalism and
values
By
SHAZIA BATOOL
Lecturer
Department of emerging allied health sciences

2. Introduction
• Professionalism is at the core of medical practice
and forms the basis of medicine's contract with
society. Patients need to know their doctor will
uphold the values of the profession. They want
clinically competent physicians who are also
compassionate, altruistic, and trustworthy. Medical
professionalism is the translation of the values of
the profession into daily actions.

3. Attributes of professionalism
• Professional competence and continuing
professional development/medical education
• Honesty
• Protecting confidentiality and privacy
• Maintaining appropriate professional distance in
relationships and respecting boundaries
• Improving quality of care
• Accepting professional responsibilities and
accountabilities

4. key elements
Four key elements support medical professionalism
and quality care
• Awareness of, and adherence to, standards of care
• Responsiveness to patients’ individual clinical and
emotional needs
• Engagement to working in partnership with
patients, colleagues, and administrators
• Acting with integrity and participating in the
process of professionally-led regulation, including
holding each other accountable for our actions.

5. • It is important to develop, monitor, and reinforce
good professional practices early in training.
Studies have shown that a lack of professionalism
on the part of a medical trainee can be predictive
of future problems with medical regulatory
authorities.