Teaching professionalism to residents.
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.
Klein
Eileen J
EJ
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
Jackson
J Craig
JC
Kratz
Lyn
L
Marcuse
Edgar K
EK
McPhillips
Heather A
HA
Shugerman
Richard P
RP
Watkins
Sandra
S
Stapleton
F Bruder
FB
D003479:Curriculum; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency / Q000941:ethics / Q000639:trends*; D017145:Models, Educational; D010372:Pediatrics / Q000193:education*; D024382:Professional Role