Critical Analysis of Professionalism in Healthcare: Assignment

This assignment critically analyzes three literary resources on healthcare professionalism. The introduction defines professionalism in healthcare as a system of ethical values and competency standards. The first resource, a journal article from Mayo Clinic Proceedings (Brennan and Monson, 2014), emphasizes the role of healthcare organizations in establishing trust and efficiency through medical professionalism, highlighting its strengths in actionable organizational approaches but weaknesses in economic analysis. The second resource, a book chapter (Monrouxe and Rees, 2017), provides tools to raise professional standards, using case studies of medical students to address workplace dilemmas, with strengths in inter-professionalism topics but weaknesses in data transparency. The third resource, a research report by the Health and Care Professions Council (2014), explores shortcomings of professionalism through training programs, with strengths in real-life training guidelines but weaknesses in not addressing new professions. The conclusion emphasizes healthcare professionalism's role in integrating the medical profession with society, advocating for integrated development across organizations, individuals, and society.

Professionalism in
Healthcare
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Introduction
Professionalism in medicine and health-care practices refers to a system of beliefs
wherein members or professionals profess to the public and to themselves the
ethical values and competency standards which they uphold in routine health-care
work practices and what patients should and can expect from the services delivered
by them (Moffatt, et al., 2014). Professionals in healthcare promise thus to maintain,
acquire and advance a) the technical knowledge and skills necessary b) an ethical
and value-based system aimed to serve the patients and c) interpersonal skills for
coherent team-working practices delivered for the betterment of the public (Reeves,
et al., 2017). In the present assignment, entitled “Professionalism in Healthcare”
three relevant literary sources have been studied upon to critically discuss the
strengths and weaknesses of each.
Resource 1
Journal Article
Title - Professionalism: Good for Patients and Health Care Organizations
Year – 2014
Citations – 44
Journal Name – Mayo Clinic Proceedings, Volume 8, Issue 5, Elsevier.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mayocp.2014.01.011
In-text Citation: (Brennan and Monson, 2014)
Short Summary – In this article, the role-play of healthcare organisations have been
addressed wherein an environment of trust and efficiency can be established by
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practical implementation of medical professionalism and its expression by
practitioners and medical teams. The article has reviewed empirical studies on
interdisciplinary subject matters namely organisational science, healthcare outcome,
effectiveness of healthcare, positive and social psychology to enable promotion of
both individual and organisational professionalism benefiting the individual,
organisation and public through increased trust factor and commitment (Brennan and
Monson, 2014).
CRAAP Test analysis (Meriam Library, 2010).
Currency – The article is up-to-date and bears applicable technical and medical
information, published in the year 2014.
Relevance – The article is in line with the topic of Professionalism and its practical
implications in Healthcare suggesting it to be relevant, providing academic and
appropriate knowledge on the subject matter.
Authority - Author - Michael D. Brennan, Verna Monson
Author Designation - Michael D. Brennan (MD, FRCPI), Verna Monson
(PhD)
Journal Name – Mayo Clinic Proceedings, Volume 8, Issue 5, Elsevier.
(Peer-reviewed)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mayocp.2014.01.011
Accuracy – With relevant and accurate information supplied, and peer-reviewed
alongside with references incorporated, the information provided by the article is
truthful, and reliable.
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Purpose – The Article is an informative writing presenting unbiased data and
transparent information aiding in organisational strategic improvement through
medical professionalism.
Critical Evaluation – The strength of the article lies in identification of actionable
organisational approaches which upon implementation can enhance organisational
and individual development. But the weakness of the article lies in inadequate
analysis of the economic perspectives underlying the strategic implementation of
medical professionalism lacking a concrete assessment.
Resource 2
Book Chapter
Title - Healthcare Professionalism: Improving Practice through Reflections on
Workplace Dilemmas
Length - 272 pages
Year – 2017
Subject – Medical: Education and Training
Citations – 23
In-text Citation: (Monrouxe and Rees, 2017)
Short Summary – This book chapter delivers the essential resources and tools that
can raise the professional standards of healthcare services. The literary work delves
into case-studies and real-life evidences of medical students for approaching the
dilemmas faced in the profession globally (Monrouxe and Rees, 2017). The book
underlies principles like professional application and practical ethical guidance to
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increase concerns and to opt for enhanced decision making while facing real-life
complex scenarios in healthcare profession.
CRAAP Test
Currency – The article published in the year 2017 provides knowledge on students’
case-studies as applicable to technical and medical frontier.
Relevance – The Chapter provides practical application based information directly
relevant with Healthcare Professionalism.
Authority - Author - Lynn V. Monrouxe, Charlotte E. Rees
Author Designation – Lynn V. Monrouxe - Professor and Director,
MERC, Chang-Gung-Memorial Hospital, Taiwan.
Charlotte E. Rees - Professor and Director Health PEER, Director and
faculty of Monash University, Australia.
Publisher - John Wiley & Sons
ISBN - 1119044448, 9781119044444
Accuracy – The information provided is credible with adequate references of real-
life case study. The study provides evidences which are reliable and sufficient.
Purpose – Through practical evidences of professional problems faced by medical
students globally, the study follows a case-study approach to address the problems
in healthcare professionalism so as to find relevant solutions to the issues faced.
Critical Evaluation – The strength of the literature lies with providing a range of
inter-professionalism topics with adequate knowledge based upon recent
international evidences. The weakness of the study lies with the transparency of the
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data supplied and the honest presentation of facts as it relies on case-study
incidences of students, educators and professionals.
Resource 3
Research Report
Title – Professionalism in healthcare professionals
Length - 68 pages
Year – 2014
In-text Citation: (Professionalism in healthcare professionals, 2014)
Short Summary – Commissioned by HPC, the research report was based upon a
research programme divulging upon aspects of professionalism and its practices in
the occupations of therapists, chiropodists and paramedics exploring perspectives of
educators and students to identify the shortcomings of professionalism for future
improvement. Training programmes by 4 organisation, 2 paramedic organisation
were considered addressing 112 respondents of 20 focus group to understand
‘interpretation’, ‘sources’, ‘indicators’ and perception of healthcare professionalism.
CRAAP Test
Currency – The report is commissioned by HPC, UK in 2014 with updated subject
matter.
Relevance – The report delivers training programme based practical application
which bears direct relevance to Healthcare Professionalism.
Authority - Author - Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
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Author Designation – The HCPC is the statutory regulator of 344,000
professionals across 16 medical professions in UK.
Publisher - Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
Publication code: MORROW11 (amended May 2014)
ISBN - 978-1-910938-02-7
Accuracy – The information was reliable and sufficiently addressed with adequate
references and professional representation of data.
Purpose – The report is based on training programmes to address the real-life
shortcomings of professionalism and how they can be rectified through adequate
regulations, role-modelling, education, employer initiatives.
Critical Evaluation – The strength of the study relies in using real life training
programmes as guidelines for understanding limitations of professionalism, through
professional view-point and the impact that employer initiatives play in professional
motivation. The weakness lies with the fact that new professions are not addressed
in the study making it harder to recognise and support “professionalism” into their
‘practices’ and more research needs to be conducted in this aspect.
Conclusion
Healthcare professionalism acts as the integrating element between medical
profession and the society rooted upon trust and commitment (Rees, et al., 2014). All
the three resources considered in form of Research Report, Journal article and Book
Chapter delves into the practice of healthcare professionalism through case-study
approaches, training programs or empirical analysis of literatures to identify the
shortcomings of healthcare professionalism to implement professionalism in medical
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settings in the form of employer initiatives, education, role-modelling, organisational
strategic development and individual skill-development, focusing in integrated
development of the organisation, individual and entire society.
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References
Brennan, M.D. and Monson, V., (2014). Professionalism: good for patients and
health care organizations. In Mayo Clinic Proceedings (Vol. 89, No. 5, pp. 644-652).
Elsevier. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mayocp.2014.01.011
Meriam Library, California State University-Chico, (2010). Evaluating Information—
Applying the CRAAP Test. Evaluating Information—Applying the CRAAP Test.
Moffatt, F., Martin, P. and Timmons, S., (2014). Constructing notions of healthcare
productivity: the call for a new professionalism?. Sociology of Health & Illness, 36(5),
pp.686-702.
Monrouxe, L.V. and Rees, C.E., (2017). Healthcare professionalism: improving
practice through reflections on workplace dilemmas. John Wiley & Sons.
Professionalism in healthcare professionals (2014). London: the Health and Care
Professions Council (HCPC) ISBN: 978-1-910938-02-7, p.68.
Rees, C.E., Monrouxe, L.V. and Ajjawi, R., (2014). Professionalism in workplace
learning: understanding interprofessional dilemmas through healthcare student
narratives. In Exploring the dynamics of personal, professional and interprofessional
ethics (pp. 295-310). Bristol: Policy Press.
Reeves, S., Pelone, F., Harrison, R., Goldman, J. and Zwarenstein, M., (2017).
Interprofessional collaboration to improve professional practice and healthcare
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