Approaches to professional behaviour assessment: tools in the professionalism toolbox.
There is general agreement that professionalism and professional behaviour should be (formatively and summatively) assessed, but consensus on how this should be done is still lacking. After discussing some of the remaining issues and questions regarding professionalism assessment, this article discusses the importance of qualitative comments to the assessment of professional behaviour, focuses on the currently most frequently used tools, as well as stresses the need for triangulation (combining) of these tools.
van Mook
Walther N K A
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Department of Intensive Care and Internal Medicine, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, The Netherlands. w.van.mook@mumc.nl
Gorter
Simone L
SL
O'Sullivan
Helen
H
Wass
Valerie
V
Schuwirth
Lambert W
LW
van der Vleuten
Cees P M
CP
D004521:Educational Measurement / Q000592:standards*; D005180:Faculty, Medical; D006801:Humans; D010380:Peer Review / Q000592:standards; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011361:Professional Competence / Q000592:standards*; D012655:Self-Evaluation Programs / Q000592:standards; D013337:Students, Medical; D013647:Task Performance and Analysis