Professionalism and Professional Identity Flashcards
1
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What is social identity theory?
A
- Human beings are social animals (tendency to form groups)
- Consider how other groups are different
2
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What is habitus?
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- Way people present themselves to others
> Dress
> Talk (accent, language, tone)
> Walk/stand
3
Q
What does our credibility as a professional rely upon?
A
Our ability to seem like a doctor
4
Q
Traditional doctor habitus in the UK
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- Firm upper-middle class
- White
- Male
5
Q
What are values?
A
Beliefs about what is important + how things should be
6
Q
GMC’s professional values
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- Honesty
- Probity
- Reliability
- Responsibility
7
Q
Values of humanistic care
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- Whole-person care
- Respect for their intrinsic values
- Considering their perspective
- Suspending judgement
- Recognising universality
- Relational focus
8
Q
Possible trajectories for students’ professionalism (Coulehan & Wilson, 2001)
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- Explicit professionalism
- Cognate professionalism
- Tacit professionalism
9
Q
What is cognate professionalism?
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Doctors behave accordingly to professional values when they are thinking about it
10
Q
What is explicit professionalism?
A
Professional values shown all the time
11
Q
Elements of the system doctors work in that hinder professionalism
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- High pressure
- Understaffed + under-resourced
- Punitive when things go wrong
- Competitive
- Traumatic
- Little/nothing of psychological support
- Loss of sense of community
