UTMB-Galveston Graduate Medical Education Office requires that Residents evaluate Faculty competency in the Professionalism domain and Faculty evaluate Resident competency in the Professionalism domain.

 

Do we know how to evaluate each other in the domain of professionalism?

 

Professionalism is a complex concept, composed of many constructs.  It is important that we understand the component parts of Professionalism if we are to adequately and fairly evaluate each other in the Professionalism domain.  CHARACTER has been developed to  make evaluation of professionalism a more meaningful activity.

 

PREMISES

 

In pediatric healthcare, we advise families to avoid telling children to “be good” and instead to state specific expectations.  Similarly, we believe it is insufficient and ineffective to strive to “be professional” or to globally evaluate “professionalism.”   It is necessary to identify and define the component behaviors and attitudes of professionalism.

 

SOURCES

1. Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education (ACGME).  Common Program Requirements: General Competencies (Feb 2007) and  General Competencies: Professionalism (1999)

2. Gold Humanism Foundation.  What is Humanism in Medical Education. 

3. ABIM Foundation, ACP–ASIM Foundation, and European Federation of Internal Medicine. Medical Professionalism in the New Millennium: A Physician Charter.   Annals of Internal Medicine. February 5, 2002 vol. 136 no. 3 243-246

4. University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) Professionalism and Professionalism Charter