Teaching professionalism in undergraduate medical education

HM Swick, P Szenas, D Danoff, ME Whitcomb - Jama, 1999 - jamanetwork.com
ContextThere is a growing consensus among medical educators that to promote the
professional development of medical students, schools of medicine should provide explicit
learning experiences in professionalism. ObjectiveTo determine whether and how schools
of medicine were teaching professionalism in the 1998-1999 academic year. Design,
Setting, and ParticipantsA 2-stage survey was sent to 125 US medical schools in the fall of
1998. A total of 116 (92.3%) responded to the first stage of the survey. The second survey …