Overview
- The latest research-based data from the Evolving Professional Responsibility for Diverse Communities Conference
- Gives insights into professionalism in both the education and medical fields
- Rebuilds the understanding of professional responsibility from the ground up
- Provides practical applications of professional responsibility in medicine and education
Part of the book series: Advances in Medical Education (AMEDUC, volume 4)
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Why Education and Health Reforms Are Needed
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Framing the Problem of Professional Responsibility
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Leverage Points for Reform
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Exploring Professional Responsibility in Action
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About this book
At the center of this book is the complex and perplexing question of how to design professional preparation programs, organizational management practices, public policy systems and robust professional associations committed to and capable of, maintaining confidence, trust and the other hallmarks of responsible professionalism. To do this, we need to rebuild our understanding of professional responsibility from the ground up. We describe how individuals might be prepared to engage in responsible professional service delivery, examine promising options for the reform of professional service systems and finally, outline a reform strategy for improving practice in education and medicine – two essential public services. The nexus of the reform problem in professionalism is establishing a more robust and effective working relationship between teachers and their students; between health care professionals and their patients and between educators and health professionals. Professionalism means acceptance of professional responsibility for student and patient outcomes — not just acceptance of responsibility for technical expertise, but commitment to the social norms of the profession, including trustworthiness and responsibility for client wellbeing. In the past, it may have been sufficient to assume that adequate knowledge can be shaped into standards of professional practice. Today, it is clear that we must take careful account of the ways in which practicing professionals develop, internalize and sustain professionalism during their training, along with the ways in which this commitment to professionalism may be undermined by the regulatory, fiscal, technological, political and emotional incentive systems that impinge on professional workplaces and professional employment systems.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Professional Responsibility
Book Subtitle: The Fundamental Issue in Education and Health Care Reform
Editors: Douglas E. Mitchell, Robert K. Ream
Series Title: Advances in Medical Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02603-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-02602-2Published: 10 November 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-37985-2Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-02603-9Published: 28 October 2014
Series ISSN: 2211-1298
Series E-ISSN: 2211-1301
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVII, 343
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Medical Education, Administration, Organization and Leadership