Recommended Reading

Foundations of professionalism

Metaphors of learning and professionalism.
Kasper LM. Clin Lab Sci. 2001 Summer;14(3):131-4. PMID: 11517620

Medical laboratory technologists' perception of professional self. A study of Swedish MLTs employed in clinical chemistry.
Andréasson S, Gullberg MT, Olsson HM, Hamrin E. Scand J Caring Sci. 1992;6(2):67-74. PMID: 1641534

The case for educating health care students in professionalism as the core content of interprofessional education.
McNair RP. Med Educ. 2005 May; 39(5):456-64.

Professionalism: A contract between medicine and society.
Cruess SR, Cruess RL. CMAJ. 2000;162:673-67

Is our level of professionalism where it should be?
Lawrence W. Bull Am Coll Surg. 2004;89(6):21-25

Defining and assessing professional competence
Epstein RM, Hundert EM. JAMA. 2002;287(2):226-235.

Preventing and managing unprofessionalism in medical school faculties.
Binder R, Friedli A, Fuentes-Afflick E. Acad Med. 2015 Apr;90(4):442-6. doi: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000000592. PMID: 25470311

Perspective: Organizational professionalism: relevant competencies and behaviors.
Acad Med. 2012 May;87(5):668-74. doi: 10.1097/ACM.0b013e31824d4b67. Review. PMID: 22450182

Practical Professionalism

Professionalism--a required CLS/CLT curricular component.
Latshaw S, Honeycutt K. Clin Lab Sci. 2010 Summer;23(3 Suppl):3-24-31. PMID: 20803831

An evidence-based perspective on greetings in medical encounters
Makoul G, Zick A, Green M
Arch Intern Med. 2007 Jun 11;167(11):1172-6
PMID: 17563026

Teaching communications and professionalism through writing and humanities: reflections of ten years of experience
Sklar DP, Doezema D, McLaughlin S, Helitzer D
Acad Emerg Med. 2002 Nov;9(11):1360-4

Narrative, emotion and action: analysing 'most memorable' professionalism dilemmas
Rees CE, Monrouxe LV, McDonald LA
Med Educ. 2013 Jan;47(1):80-96. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2923.2012.04302.x
PMID: 23278828

Defining professionalism from the perspective of patients, physicians, and nurses
Green M, Zick A, Makoul G
Acad Med. 2009 May;84(5):566-73. doi: 10.1097/ACM.0b013e31819fb7ad
PMID: 19704188