Successful instillation of professionalism in our future doctors

This article was migrated. The article was marked as recommended. Dynamic approaches are required in teaching professionalism to medical students. Awareness of this issue has both arisen from and generated by a dramatic increase in publications relating to professionalism teaching in medical education. This report explores the current state of defining professionalism and shows that current literature reveals a strong proclivity to adopting "Communities of Practice" as the learning paradigm most likely to successfully instil professional values. This pedagogy is then critiqued with regards to the requirement of an undergraduate curriculum with the conclusion that Communities of Practice should be pertinent to successfully empowering medical students' professionalism.