Medical Professionalism In An Organizational Age: Challenges And Opportunities
What strategies might organizations implement to make it more likely that clinicians can live up to the core responsibilities of professionalism?
This is the question. The answer in this article, at least in part.
One useful beginning point is with institutional culture, “that which is shared between people within organizations… the shared way of thinking…the values, beliefs and assumptions.If the organizational culture does not support the responsibilities of professionalism, then people are able to fulfill them only through acts of personal heroism.
Transparency is another controversial area where physician leadership might buttress professional responsibilities. Organizational policies vary considerably on how clinical data should be collected, identified, and shared.
Although it is simpler to identify the challenges and opportunities now confronting medical professionalism than to propose effective responses to them, the approaches set forth here—with their focus on organizational culture, leadership, compensation, transparency, and doctor patient relationships—are intended to stimulate further discussion.
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