10.25384/SAGE.C.5178578.V1
Kuang Teck Tay
Kuang Teck
Tay
Shea Ng
Shea
Ng
Jia Min Hee
Jia Min
Hee
Elisha Wan Ying Chia
Elisha Wan Ying
Chia
Divya Vythilingam
Divya
Vythilingam
Yun Ting Ong
Yun Ting
Ong
Min Chiam
Min
Chiam
Annelissa Mien Chew Chin
Annelissa Mien Chew
Chin
Warren Fong
Warren
Fong
Limin Wijaya
Limin
Wijaya
Ying Pin Toh
Ying Pin
Toh
Stephen Mason
Stephen
Mason
Lalit Kumar Radha Krishna
Lalit Kumar Radha
Krishna
Assessing Professionalism in Medicine – A Scoping Review of Assessment Tools from 1990 to 2018
<div>Background:<p>Medical professionalism enhances doctor-patient relationships and advances patient-centric care. However, despite its pivotal role, the concept of medical professionalism remains diversely understood, taught and thus poorly assessed with Singapore lacking a linguistically sensitive, context specific and culturally appropriate assessment tool. A scoping review of assessments of professionalism in medicine was thus carried out to better guide its understanding.</p>Methods:<p>Arksey and O’Malley’s (2005) approach to scoping reviews was used to identify appropriate publications featured in four databases published between 1 January 1990 and 31 December 2018. Seven members of the research team employed thematic analysis to evaluate the selected articles.</p>Results:<p>3799 abstracts were identified, 138 full-text articles reviewed and 74 studies included. The two themes identified were the context-specific nature of assessments and competency-based stages in medical professionalism.</p>Conclusions:<p>Prevailing assessments of professionalism in medicine must contend with differences in setting, context and levels of professional development as these explicate variances found in existing assessment criteria and approaches. However, acknowledging the significance of context-specific competency-based stages in medical professionalism will allow the forwarding of guiding principles to aid the design of a culturally-sensitive and practical approach to assessing professionalism.</p></div>
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SAGE Journals
2020
2020-10-18
2020-10-18
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10.25384/SAGE.c.5178578
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