Purpose: To provide a working definition of professionalism for medical educators.
Summary: Thus far, the literature has not provided a concise and inclusive definition of the …

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The effective practice of medicine requires narrative competence, that is, the ability to
acknowledge, absorb, interpret, and act on the stories and plights of others. Medicine …

In recent years, professionalism in medicine has gained increasing attention. Many have
called for a return to medical professionalism as a way to respond to the corporate …

The professional behavior of physicians and trainees has received increasing attention from
medical school educators, the broader community of medicine and society at large. 1-4 The …

In medicine, it is critical that clinicians demonstrate both empathy (perceived as warmth) and
competence. Perceptions of these qualities are often intuitive and are based on nonverbal …

As health care has become of great importance to both individual citizens and to society, it
has become more important to understand medicine's relationship to the society it serves in …

Professional values and behaviours are intrinsic to all medical practice, yet remain one of
the most difficult subjects to integrate explicitly into a curriculum. Professionalism for the …

The Holocaust, the systematic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of 6 million Jews by
the National Socialist (Nazi) regime and its collaborators, is arguably the most extreme …

Increasing demand to deliver and document therapeutic and preventive care sharpens the
need for disease management strategies that accomplish these goals efficiently while …