Resources

• Center for Ethics and Professionalism, American College of Physicians
• Virtual Mentor, Ethics Journal of the American Medical Association
• Professionalism: Patient/Physician/Community, M-I FCM Course
• Professionalism-related bibliographies
  • Assessment of Professionalism annotated bibliography [pdf], AAMC
  • Professionalism: Current Approaches annotated bibliography, ABIM Foundation [temporarily unavailable]
• Articles on Professionalism
  
  Some of the following articles require subscriptions. Wherever possible, these are provided freely to the VCU community via the VCU LIbraries' proxy server. Visitors from outside VCU may need to check for local availability.
  • When young doctors strut too much of their stuff. New York Times. 2006 Nov 21.
  • Former UVM professor sentenced to jail for fraud. Burlington Free Press. 2006 Jul 11.
  • Does Laughter Make Good Medicine? New England Journal of Medicine. 2006 Mar 16;354(11):1114-1115.
  • Young doctors learn quickly in the hot seat. New York Times. 2006 Mar 4;F5.
  • Judging a book by its cover: descriptive survey of patients' preferences for doctors' appearance and mode of address. BMJ 2005 Dec 24;331:1524-1527.
  • Disciplinary Action by Medical Boards and Prior Behavior in Medical School. New England Journal of Medicine. 2005 Dec 22;353:2673-2682.
  • Teaching doctors to be nicer: New acreditation rules spur medical schools to beef up interpersonal-skills training. Wall Street Journal Online. 2005, Sept 28; Sect. D:1.
  • Naked. New England Journal of Medicine. 2005 Aug 18;353:645-648.
  • One in three scientists confesses to having sinned. Nature. 2005 Jun 9;435:718-719.
  • Unprofessional Behavior in Medical School Is Associated with Subsequent Disciplinary Action by a State Medical Board. Academic Medicine. 2004;79: 244-9.
  • The Impact of United States Law on Medicine as a Profession. JAMA. 2003 Mar 26;289(12)1546-1556.
  • Issues in Medical Ethics: Understanding Professionalism and Its Implications for Medical Education. Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine. 2002 Nov;69(6). [Entire issue dedicated to medical ethics.]