title: Assessment of professionalism: recommendations from the Ottawa 2010 Conference.
abstract: Over the past 25 years, professionalism has emerged as a substantive and sustained theme, the operationalization and measurement of which has become a major concern for those involved in medical education. However, how to go about establishing the elements that constitute appropriate professionalism in order to assess them is difficult. Using a discourse analysis approach, the International Ottawa Conference Working Group on Professionalism studied some of the dominant notions of professionalism, and in particular the implications for its assessment. The results presented here reveal different ways of thinking about professionalism that can lead towards a multi-dimensional, multi-paradigmatic approach to assessing professionalism at different levels: individual, inter-personal, societal-institutional. Recommendations for research about professionalism assessment are also presented.
authors.affiliation: University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. brian.hodges@utoronto.ca
authors.forename: Brian David
authors.initials: BD
authors.lastname: Hodges
authors.forename: Shiphra
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ginsburg
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Cruess
authors.forename: Sylvia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Cruess
authors.forename: Rhena
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Delport
authors.forename: Fred
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Hafferty
authors.forename: Ming-Jung
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Ho
authors.forename: Eric
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Holmboe
authors.forename: Matthew
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Holtman
authors.forename: Sadayoshi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ohbu
authors.forename: Charlotte
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Rees
authors.forename: Olle
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Ten Cate
authors.forename: Yusuke
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Tsugawa
authors.forename: Walther
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Van Mook
authors.forename: Val
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Wass
authors.forename: Tim
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Wilkinson
authors.forename: Winnie
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Wade
mesh_terms: D001519:Behavior; D004501:Education, Medical / Q000458:organization & administration*; D004521:Educational Measurement / Q000379:methods*; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006801:Humans; D010551:Personality; D011361:Professional Competence; D011364:Professional Practice; D024382:Professional Role; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods