The "Pyramid of Professionalism": Seven years of experience with an integrated program of teaching, developing, and assessing professionalism among medical students

Academic Medicine

Volumn 83, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 733-741

  Parker, Malcolm ^a   Luke, Haida ^b   Zhang, Jianzhen ^b   Wilkinson, D ^a   Peterson, Raymond ^a   Ozolins, Ieva ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; CURRICULUM; HUMAN; LAW; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MEDICAL STUDENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; PROFESSIONALISM; REVIEW;

AUSTRALIA; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, GRADUATE; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; ETHICS, MEDICAL; HUMANS; JURISPRUDENCE; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE;

EID: 58149353982     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0b013e31817ec5e4     Document Type: Review

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