Purpose To analyze the plural definitions and applications of the term “hidden curriculum”
within the medical education literature and to propose a conceptual framework for …

Background Medical educators have used the hidden curriculum concept for over three
decades to make visible the effects of tacit learning, including how culture, structures, and …

Background: The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education began an initiative
in 1998 to improve resident physicians' ability to provide quality patient care and to work …

PURPOSE Patient-centered care is widely acknowledged as a core value in family
medicine. In this systematic review, we aimed to identify and compare instruments …

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 …

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Abstract Relationship-Centered Care acknowledges the central importance of relationships
in medical care. In a similar fashion, relationships hold a central position in medical …

Purpose The authors report data from the Harvard Medical School–Cambridge Integrated
Clerkship (CIC), a model of medical education in which students' entire third year consists of …

Medical students must be prepared for working in inter-professional and multi-disciplinary
clinical teams centred on a patient's care pathway. While there has been a good deal of …

Context Professionalism is central to sustaining the public's trust in the medical profession; it
is the essence of the doctor− patient relationship. Evidence exists that public trust is waning …