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. INDICE: Contributors .Preface .Part 1: Professionalism in context .1. What is Professionalism? .2. Health Professionalism .3. Brief history of the profession of medicine .4. Becoming a professional .5. Role of regulatory and professional bodies .6. Fitness to practise and health for practice .7. Revalidation and remediation .8. Social media and the professional .Part 2: Learning to be a professional .9. The formal curriculum .10. Learning and teaching professionalism .11. Informal learning, role models and hidden curriculum .12. Assessing professionalism .13. Principles of selection .14. Publishing and plagiarism .Part 3: Professionalism in practice .15. Professionalism behaviours .16. Empathy, compassion and altruism .17. Handling emotions .18. Self–care: looking after your own health .19. Reflective practice .20. Ethics and the law .21. Evidence–based practice .22. Values–based practice .23. Cultural competency, sensitivity and safety .24. Dealing with bias and prejudice .Part 4: Working with patients .25. Patient advocacy .26. Patient safety .27. Relationships with patients .28. The nature of autonomy: patient and doctor .29. Boundary crossings and violations .30. Compliance, adherence and shared decision–making .31. Prescribing: medication and management .32. Communication .Part 5: Working with others .33. Written communication .34. Teamwork and interprofessional collaborative practice .35. Leadership and followership .Part 6: Professional issues and dilemmas .36. When things go wrong .37. Dealing with complaints .Case studies: Professional dilemmas .References .Further reading .Index
- ISBN: 978-1-118-75638-6
- Editorial: Wiley–Blackwell
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 106
- Fecha Publicación: 26/06/2015
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés