Graduate Medical Education

Professionalism

Professional Behavior

Instruction in Professional Behavior may include settings such as clinical teaching; case-based teaching, mentoring, role modeling; and role playing with clinical vignettes, when aspects of respect, altruism, integrity, honesty, compassion, and empathy can be more easily discussed.

Here are a number of other resources that may also be useful to you in the development and implementation of program's approach to competency and outcomes assessment and improvement. The information contained in these approaches reflects those undertaken by your UMMC's colleagues, as well as others in your profession to develop and implement the Professionalism competency within their program or institution.

UMMC's Anesthesiology program conducts a resident retreat. The chief residents, program director, and faculty, including the Chairman developed the agenda and selected presenters. Residents participate in discussions and other learning activities related to teaching skills, time management, and team-building exercises. For more information, please contact the UMMC's GME Department.

UMMC's Internal Medicine program holds an annual educational retreat for rising senior and rising chief residents. During the day-long session, residents participate in workshops on enhancing their skills in a variety of areas, including giving effective feedback, making work rounds work more effectively, teaching medical students, encouraging professionalism during their daily work routine, leading inpatient teams, infusing evidence based medicine into their clinical activities, ensuring effective sign-outs and hand-offs, and enhancing teamwork. For more information, please contact the UMMC's GME Department.

UMMC's Pathology program developed a "hot seat" rotation where the senior residents must demonstrate skills in prioritizing making diagnostic decisions, and teaching other trainees, while attending physicians supervise the residents' abilities to practice at a more independent level. For more information, please contact the UMMC's GME Department.

UMMC's General Surgery program instituted a "Chief School", a series of weekly seminars lasting eight weeks, with the focus of professionalism, team building and leadership. For more information, please contact the UMMC's GME Department.

The American Board of Internal Medicine has a wide variety of evaluation tools for use with the internal medicine residents, which include use of praise/concern cards to document and evaluate professional behavior, including a 360-evaluation process that incorporates this aspects of the Professionalism competency. To access this resource, click here.

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ACGME has provided a Virtual Program Director's Handbook. You may click on the document name to access these resources, or may visit the ACGME website at www.acgme.org.

Common Program Requirements and Common Program Requirements for One Year Fellowships, both effective 7/1/11, are available at the ACGME website. ACGME also has provided a Program Director's Guide to the Common Program Requirements that became effective 7/1/11.

UMMC has provided a Program Director Guide with examples of program, rotation, and level specific goals and objectives as well as sample evaluation tools for evaluating resident/fellow performance, faculty performance, and program effectiveness.

This page was last updated on: January 31, 2013.