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UTMB Honor Pledge
On my honor, as a member of the UTMB
community, I pledge to act with integrity, compassion and respect in all my
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integrity compassion respect 2008 PROFESSIONALISM PROJECT
AWARD The Professionalism Committee recently sought proposals for the 2008 Professionalism Project Awards. These awards were created to increase the discussions and activities around the commitments of the UTMB Professionalism Charter across the campus. Five to seven Professionalism Project Awards (not to exceed $5000 each) were available to entities, departments and/or work groups to fund initiatives that target one or more of the UTMB Professionalism Charter Commitments. The UTMB Professionalism Charter outlines 12 commitments that everyone at the institution is asked to follow. These commitments outline the expectations of a UTMB culture that values integrity, compassion, and respect. The commitments are to:
The projects include the participation of employees from all levels and include interprofessional and/or cross-functional initiatives. The Professionalism Committee reviewed the proposals and selected five (5) winners. Awardees have one year to complete their projects and will be expected to present their work in an institution-wide Professionalism Summit that will be held in April 2009. The Summit will include selected presentations by those areas whose projects are of broad interest and serve as models that can be replicated by other areas in the institution. Each group that received an award will also be asked to participate in a poster session. At the culmination of the yearlong project, projects will be judged and the most innovative and effective initiative will be selected for a prestigious President’s Professionalism Award. 2008 PROFESSIONALISM PROJECT AWARD WINNERS Student Readers’ Theater Series ($5,000) – Student reading scripts incorporating research through exploration of relevant topics. PI: Cheryl Kaplan, Institute for the Medical Humanities Clinics Education and Training Mentor Program ($5,000) – Mentoring program for OSAs (outpatient support associates). PI: Sandra Tillis, Clinics Education and Training Cost Effective Care Seminar Series ($3,600) – Provides information about patient and institution incurred costs. PI: Neisha D’Souza and Katrina Leonard, School of Medicine Daily Reminders of Professionalism: The Medical Student Academic Calendar Project ($1,840) – Calendar featuring photographs and feature one of the 12 Professionalism Charter commitments. PI: Judith Rowen and Brook Hyatt, Pediatrics K.E.E.P. Our Promise ($5,000) – An interdisciplinary course and a direct intervention/service learning program. PI: Jason Glenn, Institute for the Medical Humanities Changing the Culture of Medical Education ($5,000) – A system to evaluate medical professionalism and humanism, provide a comparative analysis of assessment results. PI: Sandra Riegle, Institute for the Medical Humanities
In August 2006, then-president Dr. John D. Stobo invited Professionalism Charter Subcommittee co-chairs Dr. Alice Ann O'Donell and Dr. Rebecca Saavedra to announce the winners of the Professionalism Project Awards competition. This competition, sponsored by the President's Office and the John P. McGovern Academy of Oslerian Medicine was created to increase the visibility of the UTMB Professionalism Charter.
The quality of the 20 proposals that
were submitted was very good and additional funding was added so that seven,
rather than five, were chosen for funding. The seven awardees have been working
to implement
their projects, and in October 2007, a Professionalism Summit and
poster session was held so that they could report the results of the projects
to campus. At that time, one of the seven projects was chosen for a newly
established Presidential Professionalism Award. Professionalism in PrintRead Professionalism Charter Subcommittee member and American Public Health Association Student Assembly Chair Meredith Masel's letter in the APHA Student Assembly's Fall 2006 issue of News & Views. |
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