The development of professionalism: curriculum matters.

摘要: The authors propose that professionalism, rather than being left to the chance students will model themselves on ideal physicians or somehow be permeable other elements of is fostered by students’ engagement with significant, integrated experiences certain kinds content. Like clinical reasoning, which cannot occur in a vacuum but must built particular knowledge, methods, and development skills, professionalism flourish without its necessary basis skills. present need for an intellectual widening medical curriculum, so acquire not only tools scientific skills also relevant professional can provided outside bioscience domains. Medical have little opportunity engage any body knowledge gained through bioscientific/empirical methods. Yet bodies knowledge—philosophy, sociology, literature, spirituality, aesthetics— are often ones where compassion, communication, social responsibility addressed, illuminated, practiced, learned. To educate broadly educated who develop throughout their education careers requires full-spectrum curriculum processes support it. sketch ways admission, (particularly promoting sociologic consciousness, interdisciplinary thinking, understanding economic/ political dimensions health care), assessment licensure would function. Acad. Med. 2000;75:602‐611.