Jill Thistlethwaite, Judy McKimm

Health Care Professionalism at a Glance

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• At a Glance
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 112
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 276mm x 214mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 312g
• ISBN-13: 9781118756386
• ISBN-10: 111875638X
• Artikelnr.: 42339045

Autorenporträt

Jill Thistlethwaite is Professor & Health Professions Education Consultant, University of Technology Sydney, NSW Australia. Judy McKimm is Professor and Dean of Medical Education, Swansea University.

Inhaltsangabe

Contributors vii Preface ix Part 1 Professionalism in context 1 1 What is
professionalism? 2 2 Health professionalism 4 3 Brief history of the
profession of medicine 6 4 Becoming a professional 8 5 Role of regulatory
and professional bodies 10 6 Fitness to practise and health for practice 12
7 Revalidation and remediation 14 8 Social media and the professional 16
Part 2 Learning to be a professional 19 9 The formal curriculum 20 10
Learning and teaching professionalism 22 11 Informal learning, role models
and the hidden curriculum 24 12 Assessing professionalism 26 13 Principles
of selection 28 14 Academic writing and plagiarism 30 Part 3
Professionalism in practice 33 15 Professional behaviours 34 16 Empathy,
compassion and altruism 36 17 Handling emotions 38 18 Self-care: looking
after your own health 40 19 Reflective practice 42 20 Ethics and the law 44
21 Evidence-based practice 46 22 Values-based practice 48 23 Cultural
competency, sensitivity and safety 50 24 Dealing with bias and prejudice 52
Part 4 Working with patients 55 25 Patient advocacy 56 26 Patient safety 58
27 Relationships with patients 60 28 The nature of autonomy: patient and
doctor 62 29 Boundary crossings and violations 64 30 Compliance, adherence
and shared decision-making 66 31 Prescribing: medication and management 68
32 Communication 70 Part 5 Working with others 73 33 Written communication
74 34 Teamwork and interprofessional collaborative practice 76 35
Leadership and followership 78 Part 6 Professional issues and dilemmas 81
36 When things go wrong 82 37 Dealing with complaints 84 38 Case studies:
professional dilemmas 86 References 87 Further reading 90 Index 9