Lecture 4 - professionalism

Question 1

What are 5 main attributes of professionalism

Answer 1

• honesty
• compassion and empathy
• adherence to ethical codes of conduct
• team work (workign in partnership with memebers of wider healthcare team)
• Professionalism

Question 2

Definitions of medical professionalism

Answer 2

• signifies the set of values, behaviours and relationships that underpin the trust that the public has in doctors
• need to behave in a way to shwo we are worthy of the trust that patients can have in docotors as they are doing it for the publics good
• loss of this - will resutl in loss of trust, and loss of medical profesionalism

Question 3

Medical behaviours important to being a good doctor

self, colleagues and patients

Answer 3

Physicians subordinate their own interests to the interests of others.
 Physicians adhere to high ethical and moral standards.
 Physicians respond to societal needs, and their behaviours reflect a social contract with the communities served.
 Physicians evince core humanistic values, including honesty and integrity, caring and compassion, altruism and empathy,
respect for others, and trustworthiness.
Physicians exercise accountability for themselves and for their colleagues.
 Physicians demonstrate a continuing commitment to excellence.
 Physicians exhibit a commitment to scholarship and to advancing.
 Physicians deal with high levels of complexity and uncertainty.
 Physicians reflect upon their actions and decisions.

Question 4

What makes a good doctor - MCNZ requirents

Answer 4

• take care of their patient as their first concern
• compentent, keep their skills up to date, maintain goood relationships with patients and colleages
• are honest, trustworth and act ethically

Question 5

What should doctors do?

Answer 5

Caring for patients
 Respecting patients
 Working in partnership with patients and colleagues
 Acting honestly and ethically
 Accepting the obligation to maintain and improve standards

Question 6

What is the hidden curriculum

Answer 6

• unseen learnign that can be exposed by loking into it. Often culturally and environemtnally learnt
• unwritten rules, influences and attidues that students acquire from other students and stag within medical school and also docotrs in the clinical setting

Question 7

Implications of the hidden ciriculum

Answer 7

• how you are taught/see from elders is how you will act
• medical students can percieve these behaviours as acceptable
• more likely to practice these behaviours