Goddard, Viktoria CT 
ORCID: 0000-0003-1967-6126 and Brockbank, Susannah ORCID: 0000-0001-6576-7892
(2023)
Re-opening Pandora's box: Who owns professionalism and is it time for a 21st century definition?
MEDICAL EDUCATION, 57 (1).
pp. 66-75.
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Abstract
<h4>Background</h4>The concept of professionalism is dominant within health care education and the lives of practising clinicians globally, and yet there is no single agreed definition nor framework applied universally across the health care professions. This article questions how much attention is paid to where definitions of the concept of professionalism came from and whether the accepted norms within the dominant discourses are still truly applicable to a 21st century workforce.<h4>Method</h4>Taking a critical look at the existing body of literature on professionalism using a locus of medical education, this article reviews who the dominant voices have been in the creation of current understandings of professionalism. Using a pragmatic and targeted approach, regulatory body definitions of professionalism from across the world are compared to demonstrate the complexities of finding a universally accepted definition of the concept.<h4>Results</h4>The article suggests that the extant definitions are grounded but also stuck in a background of Western, White, heteronormative view of society and the professions of the past and argues that we need to better understand the expectations of professionalism from the perspectives of those who now work in health care and health care education, as well as reviewing the views of the "public" within this debate.<h4>Conclusions</h4>By reopening the "Pandora's box" of professionalism, this article argues that we can improve the quality of definitions-and thus application-of professionalism for health care professionals and patients.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Humans, Health Education, Education, Medical |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Health and Life Sciences Faculty of Health and Life Sciences > Institute of Life Courses and Medical Sciences Faculty of Health and Life Sciences > Institute of Life Courses and Medical Sciences > School of Medicine |
| Depositing User: | Symplectic Admin |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Jul 2022 09:14 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Jan 2023 20:56 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/medu.14862 |
| Open Access URL: | https://doi.org/10.1111/medu.14862 |
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| URI: | https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3157562 |
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