Resources

• Professionalism Resources
• For Faculty
• For Housestaff
• For Graduate Students
• For Medical Students

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Professionalism Resources

• The Doctor is Online: Physician Use, Responsibility, and Opportunity in the Time of Social Media by the Mayo Clinic Social
  Media Health Network (6:34/June 2011) [PDF]
• Authorship Guidelines [PDF]
• Center for Ethics and Professionalism, American College of Physicians
• Virtual Mentor, Ethics Journal of the American Medical Association
• Professionalism: Patient/Physician/Community, M1 FCM Course
• Professionalism-related bibliographies
  • Assessment of Professionalism annotated bibliography [PDF], AAMC
• 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.

  • Doctor dozed during surgery, report says. The Boston Globe. March 25, 2009
  • When young doctors strut too much of their stuff. New York Times. 2006 Nov 21.
  • Does Laughter Make Good Medicine? New England Journal of Medicine. 2006 Mar 16;354(11):1114-1115.
  • 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.]

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Resources for Faculty

Presentations

• Professionalism and Mental Health [PPT] Cheryl Al-Mateen, M.D.
• Is Our Professionalism All it Should Be? [PPT] Walter Lawrence, M.D.

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Resources for Housestaff

• ACGME Competencies
• Resident Orientation Manual [PDF], McGuire Veterans Affairs Medical Center
• Core Lecture Series
  Free version of Real Player is required for viewing video content provided below.
  • Prescribing Do's and Don'ts from the Virginia Board of Medicine - Jennifer L. Deschenes, J.D., M.S., Virginia Board of Medicine [Video]
  • Science of Patient Safety - Ron Clark, M.D. [Video]

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Resources for Graduate Students

• Scientific Integrity Course MICR 510
  Frank Macrina, Ph.D., Course Director

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Resources for Medical Students

General

• White Coat Ceremony
• VCU Insider
• School of Medicine Student Handbook
• Student Rights and Responsibilities and Mistreatment Prevention Policy
• Dress code

Evaluation of students

• Early Concern or Commendation Note—see Reporting Concerns
• M3 Clerkship Evaluation Sample Form [PDF]

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