Assessment of professionalism : recommendations from the Ottawa 2010 Conference

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Hodges, Brian David
Ginsburg, Shiphra
Cruess, Richard
Cruess, Sylvia
Delport, Rhena
Hafferty, Fred
Ho, Ming-Jung
Holmboe, Eric
Holtman, Matthew
Ohbu, Sadayoshi

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Routledge

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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 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.

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Professionalism, Operationalization, Measurement

Sustainable Development Goals

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Hodges, BD, Ginsburg, S, Cruess, R, Cruess, S, Delport, R, Hafferty, F, Ho, MJ, Holmboe, E, Holtman, M, Ohbu, S, Rees, C, Ten Cate, O, Tsugawa, Y, Van Mook, W, Wass, Y, Wilkinson, T & Wade, W 2011, ' Assessment of professionalism : recommendations from the Ottawa 2010 Conference', Medical Teacher, vol. 33, no. 5, pp. 354-363.