Health Care Professionalism at a Glance E-Book

Jill Thistlethwaite

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Fachliteratur
• Serie: At a Glance
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 202

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015

Beschreibung

Health Care Professionalism at a Glance offers accessible coverage of an increasingly important aspect of medical and health professional education. This concise text includes how to identify and develop professional behaviours, how they are assessed, and how to challenge unprofessional behaviours.

Health Care Professionalism at a Glance:
• Provides a user-friendly and thought provoking overview of health care professionalism
• Introduces the main topics, key definitions and explores aspects relevant to learners and novice professionals
• Considers fundamental features of professionalism that students are expected to acquire as well as how they are taught, learned and assessed
• Includes summary boxes that highlight important points, reflection points, clinical cases and suggested further reading
• Includes references relevant to different countries’ accrediting bodies

This important new book will assist students in understanding the nature of professionalism, its assessment, and the implications for professional practice.

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Thistlethwaite, Jill, author. Health care professionalism at a glance / Jill Thistlethwaite, Judy McKimm. p. ; cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-118-75638-6 (pbk.) I. McKimm, Judy, author. II. Title. [DNLM: 1. Health Personnel. 2. Professional Competence. 3. Professional Practice. W 21] RT82 610.7306′9—dc23 2015000702

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Contents

Contributors

Preface

Part 1 Professionalism in context

CHAPTER 1 What is professionalism?

Definitions

Professionalism courses

CHAPTER 2 Health professionalism

Medicine

Nursing

Physiotherapy

Professionalism in the 21st century

CHAPTER 3 Brief history of the profession of medicine

Definition

Professions

Medicine

Changing professional roles

CHAPTER 4 Becoming a professional

Socialisation

Rites of passage

Tribes and territories

Communities of practice

CHAPTER 5 Role of regulatory and professional bodies

Regulatory, statutory and professional bodies

Standards and competencies

Codes of practice

CHAPTER 6 Fitness to practise and health for practice

Definition

Professional behaviours and conduct

Support and sanction

Health for practice

CHAPTER 7 Revalidation and remediation

Becoming a doctor

Revalidation

Maintenance of licensure (MoL)

Remediation

CHAPTER 8 Social media and the professional

Definition

Key regulatory policies and guidelines

Risks and benefits of social media use

Part 2 Learning to be a professional

CHAPTER 9 The formal curriculum

How do we learn to be professional?

CHAPTER 10 Learning and teaching professionalism

Learning and teaching methods and principles

The importance of reflection

The content of formal learning

CHAPTER 11 Informal learning, role models and the hidden curriculum

Definition

Informal learning

Role models

Hidden curriculum

CHAPTER 12 Assessing professionalism

General principles

What is being assessed?

Practical assessment

Feedback and assessment

CHAPTER 13 Principles of selection

The selection process

Interviews

Selecting for professional attributes

Situational judgement tests

Multiple mini interviews

CHAPTER 14 Academic writing and plagiarism

What is plagiarism?

Referencing other people’s work

Part 3 Professionalism in practice

CHAPTER 15 Professional behaviours