Teaching and Assessing Professionalism in Healthcare*A Health Sciences Highlight Series Workshop*
- Date: 16 Feb 2012
- Location/venue: The Higher Education Academy, Innovation Way, York Science Park, Heslington, York, , YO10 5BR
Professionalism is an important issue across all of the health professions, including but not limited to nursing, midwifery, medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, health professions including occupational health, social work, etc. The regulatory bodies expect higher education to recognise, teach and assess professionalism, which manifests itself in a range of behaviors.
This highly interactive one day workshop features renowned international expert Professor Maxine Papadakis facilitating discussion of what professionalism means in higher education, and how to evidence and promote it.
Aims
The workshop aims to:
· raise awareness of teaching 'professionalism' and 'fitness to practice' in health care programmes
· share methods for assuring the development 'professionalism' and 'fitness to practice' in health care programmes among students and trainees
Activities
Discussion will be encouraged during the event using scenarios and group work:
10:30 - Arrival and coffee
11:00 - Welcome and introductions - Chris Dinsdale, Higher Education Academy Health Sciences
11:30 - What is 'professionalism' – Dr Lynn Monrouxe, Cardiff University and Professor Charlotte Rees, University of Dundee
12:30 Breakout into subject related groups - professionalism vignettes
13:00 Lunch
13:30 Professionalism in the UK health care context – Megan Quentin-Baxter, Newcastle University
13:45 Teaching and assessing professionalism – Professor Maxine Papadakis, UCSF
14:45 Break out into mixed groups - experience of teaching and assessing professionalism in the UK
15:30 Feedback and summing up
16:00 Close
Proposed outcomes
Participants will have a wider understanding of professionalism and how to measure evidence of professional behavior.
To book a place on this event, please follow this link to the Medicine, Dentistry and Veterinary science subject centre website and follow the instructions to MyAcademy.