title: Teaching professionalism to residents.
abstract: The need to teach professionalism during residency has been affirmed by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, which will require documentation of education and evaluation of professionalism by 2007. Recently the American Academy of Pediatrics has proposed the following components of professionalism be taught and measured: honesty/integrity, reliability/responsibility, respect for others, compassion/empathy, self-improvement, self-awareness/knowledge of limits, communication/collaboration, and altruism/advocacy. The authors describe a curriculum for introducing the above principles of professionalism into a pediatrics residency that could serve as a model for other programs. The curriculum is taught at an annual five-day retreat for interns, with 11 mandatory sessions devoted to addressing key professionalism issues. The authors also explain how the retreat is evaluated and how the retreat's topics are revisited during the residency, and discuss general issues of teaching and evaluating professionalism.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington School of Medicine (UOWSM) and Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center (CHRMC), Seattle, Washington 98105, USA. eileen.klein@seatlechildren.org
authors.forename: Eileen J
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: Klein
authors.forename: J Craig
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Jackson
authors.forename: Lyn
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Kratz
authors.forename: Edgar K
authors.initials: EK
authors.lastname: Marcuse
authors.forename: Heather A
authors.initials: HA
authors.lastname: McPhillips
authors.forename: Richard P
authors.initials: RP
authors.lastname: Shugerman
authors.forename: Sandra
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Watkins
authors.forename: F Bruder
authors.initials: FB
authors.lastname: Stapleton
mesh_terms: D003479:Curriculum; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency / Q000941:ethics / Q000639:trends*; D017145:Models, Educational; D010372:Pediatrics / Q000193:education*; D024382:Professional Role