Teaching, learning, and assessing professionalism: lessons learnt and future directions

Journal Article

Sattar*, Mona M. Soliman, Kamran . 2017

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Abstract
Professionalism is a priority for the medical students, physicians and medical educators because it is an important component of medicine's contract with society. The authors wish to share the experience of the operationalization of current teaching, learning and assessment tools of professionalism course. The authors also desired to share proposal as a future direction.
A detailed description is provided about the current practice for inculcating in the students the best professional attitudes, communication and management skills and knowledge. Furthermore, a comparison of the proposed future plan with the current practice is also attained.
The authors believe that adopting the evidence based practices need time and gradual improvements which in turn pave a path to have the best professional care for the patients.
Keywords: teaching, learning, professionalism, lessons learned, future directions, Saudi medical school.