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Assessing Professionalism in Medicine - A Scoping Review of Assessment Tools from 1990 to 2018.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Medical professionalism enhances doctor-patient relationships and advances patient-centric care. However, despite its pivotal role, the concept of medical professionalism remains diversely understood, taught and thus poorly assessed with Singapore lacking a linguistically sensitive, context specific and culturally appropriate assessment tool. A scoping review of assessments of professionalism in medicine was thus carried out to better guide its understanding.

Methods

Arksey and O'Malley's (2005) approach to scoping reviews was used to identify appropriate publications featured in four databases published between 1 January 1990 and 31 December 2018. Seven members of the research team employed thematic analysis to evaluate the selected articles.

Results

3799 abstracts were identified, 138 full-text articles reviewed and 74 studies included. The two themes identified were the context-specific nature of assessments and competency-based stages in medical professionalism.

Conclusions

Prevailing assessments of professionalism in medicine must contend with differences in setting, context and levels of professional development as these explicate variances found in existing assessment criteria and approaches. However, acknowledging the significance of context-specific competency-based stages in medical professionalism will allow the forwarding of guiding principles to aid the design of a culturally-sensitive and practical approach to assessing professionalism.

SUBMITTER: Tay KT

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7580192 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Assessing Professionalism in Medicine - A Scoping Review of Assessment Tools from 1990 to 2018.

Tay Kuang Teck KT Ng Shea S Hee Jia Min JM Chia Elisha Wan Ying EWY Vythilingam Divya D Ong Yun Ting YT Chiam Min M Chin Annelissa Mien Chew AMC Fong Warren W Wijaya Limin L Toh Ying Pin YP Mason Stephen S Krishna Lalit Kumar Radha LKR

Journal of medical education and curricular development 20200101

<h4>Background</h4>Medical professionalism enhances doctor-patient relationships and advances patient-centric care. However, despite its pivotal role, the concept of medical professionalism remains diversely understood, taught and thus poorly assessed with Singapore lacking a linguistically sensitive, context specific and culturally appropriate assessment tool. A scoping review of assessments of professionalism in medicine was thus carried out to better guide its understanding.<h4>Methods</h4>Ar ...[more]

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