Professionalism

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In the current study, the experts determined five main categories of factors affecting FD in professionalism in medical education: ”culture”, ”educational factors”, ”background factors”, “attitude factors”, and “organizational factors”. There are no studies investigating FD in the area of professionalism; however, there are general studies that mention several factors affecting FD. Coferla quoting Zine mentions four main supporting and limiting factors for FD including 1) people and interpersonal relations, 2) organizational structures, 3) personal attentions and commitments, and 4) personal characteristics (18). In contrast, the results of the current study are in agreement withconfirm the study by Zine about general FD; however, …show more content…

According to the experts taken part in this study, peer pressure can encourage people behave in a certain way or discourage certain behaviors effective on FD. For example, they pointed that even if faculty members were to learn professionalism and were desired to have professional mannerway, disagreements from peers for any reason would have stopped their professional behavior and made the FD programs useless. A study by Hitchcock emphasized the important role of the relationships between fellow faculty members for academic advancement, believing that it has a more important role compared to the organization (24). Another study which investigates the role of other faculty members in fellowship training programs claims that those who graduate from these training programs play an important role in creating change in the culture of constant learning among their peers (25). Therefore, one must pay attention to the role of peers in FD programs.
Another extracted code in this study is the effect of “dominant culture in management teams” on FD in the area of professionalism. So, professional associations can have an effective role in changing organizations, and thus people working in those organizations (26). The participants also insinuated the role of prominent characters at university, cultural organizations, and professional associations such as Medical …show more content…

The participants especially emphasized the theme of motivation. Motivation is a dependent and independent variable in medical education that can affect the competency of people (29). According to earlier previous studies in psychology, feelings can affect a person's motivations (30). According to the participants and given the role of professionalism as part of competency and the relation between professionalism, motivation and feelings and creating proper incentives using various feelings can play a special role in

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