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Teaching and learning professional values

Teaching and learning professional values Professionalism is at the heart of medical practice. A professional is someone whose work is based upon mastery of a complex body of knowledge and skills. Commitment to competence, integrity, morality, altruism and promotion of public good are all part of the core values and responsibilities of the professional, who needs to be differentiated from an expert. A medical professional has principles of supremacy of patient welfare, patient autonomy and social justice. An expert, on the other hand, is a skilful and well‐informed individual in some special field or someone widely recognised as a reliable source of knowledge, technique or skill who conveys and is accepted as an authority by virtue of their judgement ( Ericsson, 2006 ). Ericsson suggests that expertise then refers to the characteristics, skills and knowledge that distinguish experts from novices and less experienced people. The essential difference between professionalism and expertise relies on the fact that the latter is an adaptation by amassing considerable skills, knowledge and mechanisms that monitor and control cognitive processes to perform a delimited set of tasks efficiently and effectively ( Feltovich 2006 ) whereas professionalism has a set of core attributes and values. Expertise is defined by Feltovich http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Asia-Pacific Psychiatry Wiley

Teaching and learning professional values

Asia-Pacific Psychiatry , Volume 2 (2) – Jun 1, 2010

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Publisher
Wiley
Copyright
© 2010 Blackwell Publishing Asia Pty Ltd
ISSN
1758-5864
eISSN
1758-5872
DOI
10.1111/j.1758-5872.2010.00069.x
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Abstract

Professionalism is at the heart of medical practice. A professional is someone whose work is based upon mastery of a complex body of knowledge and skills. Commitment to competence, integrity, morality, altruism and promotion of public good are all part of the core values and responsibilities of the professional, who needs to be differentiated from an expert. A medical professional has principles of supremacy of patient welfare, patient autonomy and social justice. An expert, on the other hand, is a skilful and well‐informed individual in some special field or someone widely recognised as a reliable source of knowledge, technique or skill who conveys and is accepted as an authority by virtue of their judgement ( Ericsson, 2006 ). Ericsson suggests that expertise then refers to the characteristics, skills and knowledge that distinguish experts from novices and less experienced people. The essential difference between professionalism and expertise relies on the fact that the latter is an adaptation by amassing considerable skills, knowledge and mechanisms that monitor and control cognitive processes to perform a delimited set of tasks efficiently and effectively ( Feltovich 2006 ) whereas professionalism has a set of core attributes and values. Expertise is defined by Feltovich

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Asia-Pacific PsychiatryWiley

Published: Jun 1, 2010

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