Professionalism in medicine encompasses a set of values including competence, integrity, compassion, respect and dedication to service. It emerged as a concept in the 1990s in response to the growing business model of healthcare and need to reinforce ethical principles. Professionalism is important for medical students to understand as it forms the basis of the patient-physician relationship and trust. While professional values have long existed, it is important for students to dedicate themselves to living according to these ideals from the beginning of their training through compassionate care for patients.

1. Professionalism:
How it can boost your career?
Ahmed Adel Sharf AlDin |
Medical Student |
MFM-SRP Executive Director |

3. Who thinks
that he is a
professional
medical
student
? ? ?

4. What is professionalism ? ? ?

5. What is professionalism ? ? ?
 Embraces a set of attitudes, skills and behaviors,
attributes and values which are expected from
those to whom society has extended the privilege
of being considered a Professional.

6. What is professionalism ? ? ?
All definitions Include elements:
nowledge and skills.
he highest standards of ethical
and professional behavior.
social (moral) contract
(a fiduciary relationship).

7. AND NOW ???

8. Who thinks that he is a professional medical student
? ? ?

9. What is professionalism ? ? ?
All definitions Include elements:
nowledge and skills.
he highest standards of ethical
and professional behavior.
social (moral) contract
(a fiduciary relationship).

10. Knowledge

12. Ethics

13. Doctor-Patient Relationship

14.  The term "professionalism" encompasses a reaffirmation of the values and behaviors of physicians.
 The concept of professionalism first emerged in the early 1990’s in the United States as a response to the many challenges facing the health care system. Managed largely by independent Health Maintenance Organizations, HMOs,
the provision of health care had increasingly become a business. As a result of this for-profit health care market, the very core of medicine was felt to be eroding. Evolving trends in medical care favored cost-effectiveness and
efficacy and, as expected, had adversely affected certain aspects of the medical profession. The term "professionalism" arose out of the desire to reaffirm humanistic qualities, qualities such as compassion and altruism, back into the
medical world. As such, professionalism developed out of the necessity to reinforce sound ethical principles within the medical community.
 In the United States, the American Board of Internal Medicine (2) and the American Association of Medical Colleges (1) developed documents asserting that the values of the medical profession, including humanistic values, needed
to be taught to medical students and residents in training.
 By the mid 1990's, the concept of "professionalism" began to surface in medical schools across Canada and the United States. The importance of including professionalism in the curriculum became increasingly apparent in light of the
challenges facing medical education (such as the increasing diversity of the medical student population) and health care in general. Although the term "professionalism" seems to have emerged out of the dichotomy between
private HMOs and the millions of uninsured Americans, the ideals of professionalism have existed for centuries.
 An extensive literature has accompanied this increased emphasis on Professionalism in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Australia and elsewhere. How to 'teach' and evaluate Professionalism has become a topic of extensive
interest within medical education conferences.

16. The Core Values of Professionalism
Honesty and
Integrity
Altruism
Respect
Responsibility
and
Accountability
Compassion
and Empathy
Dedication and
Self-
improvement

17. Dedication and Self-improvement

18. Honesty and Integrity

19. Altruism

20. Respect

21. Responsibility and Accountability

22. Compassion and Empathy

23. Professionalism & Medicine
 Professionalism embodies the relationship between medicine and society as it forms the
basis of patient-physician trust.

24. A physicianis
Healer
Professional

25. Professionalism & Medical Students
 "The hardest conviction to get into the mind of a beginner is that the education upon
which [he/she] is engaged is not a college course, not a medieval course, but a life
course, for which the work of a few years under teachers is but a preparation." [Osler, (5)]

26. It is a COMMON SENSE!
 As medical students, understanding the values and attributes expected of physicians will
remain most imperative throughout one’s career. Caring for patients that are ill demands
compassion, competence, and sound ethical values, and there is no better time to foster
the values of the medical profession than the beginning of the journey.

27. Commitments as a medical student

28.  Respect for professors, preceptors, and peers
 Respect for guest speakers and visiting patients
 Respect for cadavers and anatomical specimens in the anatomy lab
 Respect for the institution of which you are a part
 Respect for patients and their families at clinical encounters
 Respect for patient confidentiality
 Respect for all members of the health care team
 Respect for administrative and support staff
 Respect for the core values of professionalism

29. Is it
really
that
? ? ?

30. As noted by Sir William Osler, it takes
time, effort, and dedication to live
according to an ideal: this is perhaps the
single most important obligation
medical students have to both society
and to the profession.

31. But ! ! !
You will have a great outcome.

32. A professional Student who will be a professional Doctor!

33. References.
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Medicine; 1982.
6. Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. The 2005 CanMEDS Physician Competency Framework
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Accessed 1 Aug 2007.
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<http://www.afmc.ca/pdf/2006_may_01_hart_award.ppt>. Accessed July 2007.
11. UOttawa Faculty of Medicine. Medical Professionalism: Summary Report of the Professionalism Review Committee. December 2006.
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