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Professional
Behavior
| Purpose |
| It is important
during your residency to both model and exhibit
professional behavior at all times, particularly in
all patient care
situations including inpatients and outpatients. Respect
for co-
workers and other physicians within the hospital and
especially
to referring physicians is expected. Appropriate dress
and language
shall be used at all times. |
| Background |
| Numerous studies
have demonstrated that medical students and
residents often believe that they are abused in the
setting of
medical education. Because the relationship between
faculty and
student or resident is hierarchical, it remains the
ethical
responsibility of the faculty to assure that those
students and
residents are professionally mentored and respectfully
treated. A
renewed interest in teaching professionalism to medical
students
and residents has been demonstrated by a variety of
organizations
such as the ACGME, AAMC, ACP and SAEM. |
| References |
- Kassebaum
DG. Cutler ER. On the culture of student abuse
in medical school. Academic Medicine. 73(11):1149-58,
1998 Nov.
- Richardson DA. Becker M. Frank RR. Sokol
RJ. Assessing medical students' perceptions of
mistreatment in their second and third years.
Academic Medicine. 72(8):728-30, 1997 Aug.
- Strong C. Wall HP. Jameson V. Horn HR. Black
RN. Scott S.
Brown SC. A model policy addressing mistreatment of
medical students. Journal of Clinical Ethics. 7(4):341-6;
discussion 347-8, 1996 Winter.
- Nora LM. McLaughlin MA. Fosson SE. Jacob
SK. Schmidt JL. Witzke D. Does exposure to gender
discrimination and sexual
harassment impact medical students' specialty choices
and
residency program selections? Academic Medicine.
71(10 Suppl):S22-4, 1996 Oct.
- Baldwin DC Jr. Daugherty SR. Rowley BD.
Residents' and medical students' reports of sexual
harassment and discrimination. Academic Medicine.
71(10 Suppl):S25-7, 1996 Oct.
- Anonymous. Disputes between medical supervisors
and trainees. Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs,
American Medical Association.
- Fischer H. Sexual harassment [letter; comment].
New England
Journal of Medicine. 330(19):1388; 1389, 1994 May
12.R.
- Revicki DA. Whitley TW. Gallery ME. Organizational
characteristics, perceived work stress, and depression
in emergency medicine residents. Behavioral Medicine.
19(2):74-81, 1993.
- Conley FK. Toward a more perfect world-eliminating
sexual discrimination in academic medicine [editorial;
comment] New England Journal of Medicine. 328(5):351-2,
1993.
- Feldman P. Jones S. Shrier I. Eradicating
sexual harassment during medical training [letter].
Academic Medicine. 72(12):1026-7, 1997.
- McNamara RM, et al. The extent and effects
of abuse and harassment of emergency medicine
residents. Academic Emergency Medicine. 1995;
2:293-301.
- Komaromy et al. Sexual harassment in medical
training. NEJM 1993; 321-326.
- Richman JA et al. Mental health consequences
and correlates of reported medical student abuse.
JAMA 1992; 267:692-693.
Adapted from (Indiana University - Methodist Emergency
Medicine Residency)
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| Responsibilities |
- All
patients, ancillary support personnel,
co-workers and students
are entitled to equitable, respectful, and
professional interaction.
- Criticism of performance will be discussed
in private with the
faculty, student or resident.
- Discussions about patient care with consulting
medical staff or
residents will be carried out in a civil
tone and volume. Shouting,
cursing, or personal attacks have no
place in such discussions.
- When physically present in the ED, professional
conversation
and interactions are critical to patient
care and ED function.
- The EM Residency Committee reserves the
right to address any
perceived breaches of professional
behavior with the medical staff
member, resident or their supervisor.
- Failure to address the Education Committee's
concern may result
in reporting the event to the hospital's
Vice President of Medical
Affairs or appropriate governing
body
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| Date Last Updated |
| July 23rd,
2001 |
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