Background There is no widespread agreement over what form healthcare professional
regulation should take, and the evidence base concerning the effectiveness and fairness of …

This essay is composed of commentaries from four scholars critically evaluating
Noordegraaf's article 'Protective or Connective Professionalism? How Connected …

Historically, self-regulation has provided some professions with power and market control.
Currently, however, governments have scrutinized this approach, and priorities have shifted …

How professionalism relates to developments in society has been widely discussed, and
concepts such as “hybrid” and “connective” professionalism have been proposed to account …

The COVID-19 pandemic provoked a surge in demand for health services. To help meet this
demand, governments and health profession regulators implemented regulatory policy …

The purpose of this study is to provide a descriptive analysis of the characteristics of adult
learning and education as a profession in Hungary, with a particular emphasis on the …

This article presents new insights into Spencer's theoretical sociology as he applied it to the
professions and professional institutions, which he discussed extensively, particularly in his …

This article develops an ecological theory that shifts the paradigm of professional
mobilization from causes to relational spaces. It analyzes different species of activist …

Research has documented how the decline in professional self-regulation in the UK and
Australia was led by policy-makers in response to regulatory failures. In Canada …

Abstract Rural communities in Alberta, Canada have faced physician shortages for decades.
Attracting internationally educated physicians, including many South African physicians, is …