Health Care Professionalism at a Glance

Health Care Professionalism at a Glance offers accessiblecoverage of an increasingly important aspect of medical and healthprofessional education. This concise text includes how to identifyand develop professional behaviours, how they are assessed, and howto challenge unprofessional behaviours.

Health Care Professionalism at a Glance:
Provides a user–friendly and thought provoking overview ofhealth care professionalism
Introduces the main topics, key definitions and exploresaspects relevant to learners and novice professionals
Considers fundamental features of professionalism thatstudents are expected to acquire as well as how they are taught,learned and assessed
Includes summary boxes that highlight important points,reflection points, clinical cases and suggested furtherreading
Includes references relevant to different countries accrediting bodies

This important new book will assist students in understanding thenature of professionalism, its assessment, and the implications forprofessional practice.

Contributors

Preface

Part 1: Professionalism in context

1. What is Professionalism?

2. Health Professionalism

3. Brief history of the profession of medicine

4. Becoming a professional

5. Role of regulatory and professional bodies

6. Fitness to practise and health for practice

7. Revalidation and remediation

8. Social media and the professional

Part 2: Learning to be a professional

9. The formal curriculum

10. Learning and teaching professionalism

11. Informal learning, role models and hidden curriculum

12. Assessing professionalism

13. Principles of selection

14. Publishing and plagiarism

Part 3: Professionalism in practice

15. Professionalism behaviours

16. Empathy, compassion and altruism

17. Handling emotions

18. Self–care: looking after your own health

19. Reflective practice

20. Ethics and the law

21. Evidence–based practice

22. Values–based practice

23. Cultural competency, sensitivity and safety

24. Dealing with bias and prejudice

Part 4: Working with patients

25. Patient advocacy

26. Patient safety

27. Relationships with patients

28. The nature of autonomy: patient and doctor

29. Boundary crossings and violations

30. Compliance, adherence and shared decision–making

31. Prescribing: medication and management

32. Communication

Part 5: Working with others

33. Written communication

34. Teamwork and interprofessional collaborative practice

35. Leadership and followership

Part 6: Professional issues and dilemmas

36. When things go wrong

37. Dealing with complaints

Case studies: Professional dilemmas

References

Further reading

Index

Jill Thistlethwaite is Professor of Medical Education, The University of Queensland

Judy McKimm is Professor and Dean of Medical Education, Swansea University