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Professionalism and Professional Values

Professionalism and Professional Values. Professor Gordon Kirk CLD Conference 1 March 2010. Plan. Professionalism: the established view Threats to professionalism Professional values: a reinterpretation. Professionalism: the established view (1).

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Professionalism and Professional Values

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  1. Professionalism and Professional Values Professor Gordon Kirk CLD Conference 1 March 2010

  2. Plan Professionalism: the established view Threats to professionalism Professional values: a reinterpretation

  3. Professionalism: the established view (1) Providing a service essential to human flourishing through a special relationship Requiring sustained education and training Adherence to an ethical code

  4. Professionalism the established view (2) 4. Exercising autonomy of professional action and judgement Self regulating through a legitimating body Commenting on public policy

  5. Professionalism: the established view: advantages A counter to a centralising government A sensible compromise between expertise and public accountability

  6. Threats to professionalism (1) Exclusiveness of established criteria “Silo” mentality The personalisation agenda The competence movement

  7. Threats to professionalism (2) • Managerialism and financial accountability • Questioning of authority • Well publicised cases of professional misconduct and incompetence • Professions as self-serving monopolies

  8. Professional values: a reinterpretation (1) Stronger intra- and inter- professional collaboration Evidence-based practice Commitment to enhanced performance Stronger involvement in setting professional standards

  9. Professional values: a reinterpretation (2) Shared interprofessional ethical values such as non- discriminatory practice Personal morality and professional action

  10. The Scottish Forum for Professional Ethics www.gla.ac.uk/departments/thescottishforumforprofessionalethics

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