Critical Reflection Paper
Along the lengthy and extensive pathway of becoming a physician, there are many tasks that one must complete, and with each of these tasks there are associated challenges that must be overcome. Learning how to navigate through these tasks can be frustrating, nerve-racking, and even frightening. For each person, there are different concerns and strategies needed or used with each of these tasks. As someone who is about to begin her third year clinical rotations, my current source of concern and apprehension would be the overwhelming dread and fear of acting unprofessional during my rotations. Before addressing the implications of my concern and how I can work to overcome them, a thorough analysis of the origin of my …show more content…
While medical professionalism can be defined many ways, for me it is a belief system in which group members (“professionals”) declare to each other and the public the shared competency standards and ethical values they promise to uphold in their work and what the public and individual patients can and should expect from medical professionals.1 Simply put, professionalism is a shared understanding of its members who pledge to uphold a process of personal development, lifelong learning, and participation in a social enterprise that continually seeks to express expertise and caring in its work. As a medical student participating in clinical rotations, this can be demonstrated in the manner in which we dress each day, our promptness for arriving at each shift, and how we interact with our patients, hospital staff, classmates, and preceptors. Our training and experience places us in a position where we are being trusted with the privilege of sharing someone’s best, worst, and most private moments of their life. Therefore, we are held to a higher level of professionalism than the ordinary job-holding person in society, which is as it should be. With this definition and the significance it holds in mind, we can evaluate the origin of my concerns regarding medical
Along the lengthy and extensive pathway of becoming a physician, there are many tasks that one must complete, and with each of these tasks there are associated challenges that must be overcome. Learning how to navigate through these tasks can be frustrating, nerve-racking, and even frightening. For each person, there are different concerns and strategies needed or used with each of these tasks. As someone who is about to begin her third year clinical rotations, my current source of concern and apprehension would be the overwhelming dread and fear of acting unprofessional during my rotations. Before addressing the implications of my concern and how I can work to overcome them, a thorough analysis of the origin of my …show more content…
While medical professionalism can be defined many ways, for me it is a belief system in which group members (“professionals”) declare to each other and the public the shared competency standards and ethical values they promise to uphold in their work and what the public and individual patients can and should expect from medical professionals.1 Simply put, professionalism is a shared understanding of its members who pledge to uphold a process of personal development, lifelong learning, and participation in a social enterprise that continually seeks to express expertise and caring in its work. As a medical student participating in clinical rotations, this can be demonstrated in the manner in which we dress each day, our promptness for arriving at each shift, and how we interact with our patients, hospital staff, classmates, and preceptors. Our training and experience places us in a position where we are being trusted with the privilege of sharing someone’s best, worst, and most private moments of their life. Therefore, we are held to a higher level of professionalism than the ordinary job-holding person in society, which is as it should be. With this definition and the significance it holds in mind, we can evaluate the origin of my concerns regarding medical