Measuring Medical Professionalism (Hardcover)

Patients who are confident of physicians' intellectual and technical abilities are sometimes not convinced of their professional behavior. Systemic and anecdotal cases of physician misconduct, conflict of interest, and self-interest abound. Many have even come to mistrust physicians as patient advocates. How can patients trust the intellectual and technical aspects of medical care, but not the professional? In order to enhance and promote professionalism in medicine, one should expect it, encourage it, and evaluate it. By measuring their own professional behavior, physicians can provide the kind of transparency with which they can regain the trust of patients and society.
Not only patients, but also institutions which accredit organizations have demanded accountability of physicians in their professional behavior. While there has been much lament and a few strong proposals for improving professionalism, no single reliable and valid measure of the success of these proposals exists. This book is a theory-to-practice text focused on ways to evaluate professional behavior written by leaders in the field of medical education and assessment.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	2006
First published:	November 2005
Authors:	David Thomas Stern (Associate Professor of Internal Medicine and Medical Education)
Dimensions:	242 x 165 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	336
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-517226-3
Categories:	Books > Medicine > General issues > Medical ethics Books > Medicine > General issues > Public health & preventive medicine > General Books > Medicine > General issues > Health systems & services > General Promotions
LSN:	0-19-517226-4
Barcode:	9780195172263

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