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Using Visual and Narrative Methods to Achieve Fair Process in Clinical Care
Published on: February 16, 2011
[Professionalism in psychiatry: looking both inward and outward]
Background:
Present challenges in (Dutch) mental health care touch upon the core of the social contract between the profession and society. This urges an explicit account of professionalism in psychiatry.
Aim:
To present an integral model of medical professionalism in psychiatry.
Method:
Conceptual analysis on the basis of sociological, philosophical and medical education literature.
Results:
Professionalism can be analyzed in terms of 1) a set of competences, 2) an internalized professional identity 3) a collective professional practice that embodies the social contract.
Conclusion:
Professionalism in psychiatry requires both an internal and an external focus – an attunement of one’s expertise to both one’s own professional values and ambitions and society’s (future) needs.
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