Professionalism & Medical Ethics

1. Professionalism& Medical Ethics Ronald R. Burns, DO, FACOFP Member AOA Board of Trustees Member NBOME Board of Trustees Fellow Federation of State Medical Boards

2. Professionalism • What is professionalism? • How can it be implemented? • How is it taught? • How is it assessed?

3. Honesty Altruism Service Commitment Communication Commitment to excellence accountability Life-long learning The concept of professionalism includes the following values :

4. OSTEOPATHIC PLEDGE OF COMMITMENT I pledge to: Provide compassionate, quality care to my patients; Partner with them to promote health; Display integrity and professionalism throughout my career; Advance the philosophy, practice and science of osteopathic medicine; Continue life-long learning; Support my profession with loyalty in action, word and deed; and Live each day as an example of what an osteopathic physician should be.

5. Code of Ethics The American Osteopathic Association has formulated this Code to guide its member physicians in their professional lives. The standards presented are designed to address the osteopathic physician's ethical and professional responsibilities to patients, to society, to the AOA, to others involved in healthcare and to self. Further, the American Osteopathic Association has adopted the position that physicians should play a major role in the development and instruction of medical ethics.

6. OCC • Continuous learning • Practice improvement • Proficiency evaluation • Knowledge test

7. Ten Commitments to Professionalism

8. What is ethics? • Ethics or moral philosophy is the systematic endeavour to understand moral concepts and justifymoral principles and theories.

9. Attitudes, ethical understanding and Legal responsibility Medical informatics Decision making skills and clinical Reasoning and judgment Patient management Professionalism What the doctor as a teacher is able to do Basic, Social and clinical sciences Patient investigation Approach to task Performance Of task Clinical Skills Practical procedures Personal Development Health promotion and Disease prevention Role of the doctor within the health service and community

11. Required Elements: • Knowledge • Humanism • Primacy of Patient Need • Accountability • Continuous Learning • Ethics • Cultural Competence Osteopathic Medical Competencies Osteopathic Philosophy & OMT Medical Knowledge Osteopathic Patient Care Interpersonal & Communication Skills Professionalism Practice-based Learning and Improvement Systems-based Practice

12. Self-Evaluation of Practice Performance • Designed to force “a new way of thinking” about quality and QI • Quality is not what the doctor does (but what the system produces) • Quality improvement is not about working harder (or learning more) but is about diagnosing and treatment of system problems” • Designed to promote adult (experiential) learning by creating a safe and credible mechanism for self-evaluation

13. AOA’s “CAP” Practice Improvement Module Patient Data Practice Systems Performance Report Improvement Plan Do Act Impact Study

14. RESPONSIBILITIES OF PHYSICIANS • Maintain skills through ongoing education. • Seek help for any impairment issues Practitioner Resource Network: 1(800) 888-8PRN • Know the Laws and Rules that govern the practice of medicine in Florida