Interactive workshop on teaching Professionalism and Ethics: Dow University of Health Sciences on Jan 18, 2014

1. Teaching professionalism
and Ethics
Dr. Masood Jawaid
Assistant Professor Surgery
Dow University of Health Sciences

4. Learning Objective
• At the end of workshop participants will be
able to:
– Define Professionalism
– List different attributes of Professional behavior
– Explain different methods of teaching
Professionalism
– Perform exercises on changing behavior

5. Outline
Teaching Methods

8. Definition
The
habitual
and
judicious
use
of
communication,
knowledge,
technical
skills, clinical reasoning, emotions, values, and
reflection in daily practice for the benefit of the
individual and community being served
Epstein RM, Hundert EM. Defining and assessing professional
competence. JAMA. 2002;287(2):226–235

14. Methods
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Role Model
Self Reflection
Mentoring
Reflective Writing
Vignette (CBL/PBL)
Workshops
Feedback
Lectures

15. Vignettes
• You are on your hospital’s elevator and you overhear
another physician discussing the behavior of one of her
patients.
Points to consider during discussion
• Whose responsibility is it to remind that physician
about confidentiality?
• What would you do in response to hearing this?
• What if the physician is from another department?
• What if the physician is a department chair?

16. http://professionalism.jefferson.edu

20. Stage
Pre-contemplation
‘Lacks insights into problem’
Intervention
Difficult Professional Situation
Telling
Understand learner’s
point of view
State opinions
Clarify expectations
Create
tension, awareness of
gap between behavior
and professional goals
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Outcome
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Tension is built between
learner’s behavior and
goals
Increased awareness
leads to contemplation
Contemplation
‘insight but Ambivalence’
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Selling
Emphasize with the
dilemma
Explore pros and cons
Identify barrier to change
Increase
tension, discomfort
Reduced perception of
barriers to change
Determination
‘Committed to change’
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Participating
Support commitment
Help develop an action
plan
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Behavior change

22. Its TIME to get up
THE END
Thanks a lot