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Your PATH to becoming a physician

Explore the professionalism requirements of becoming a physician and learn about the importance of timeliness, communication, dress, conflict management, and self-knowledge. Discover the keys to a successful career in medicine, including proactive planning and persistence.

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Your PATH to becoming a physician

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  1. Your PATH to becoming a physician Boston University School of Medicine - Student Affairs Orientation August 2019

  2. Professionalism pro·fes·sion·al·ism prəˈfeSHənlˌizəm/ noun the competence or skill expected of a professional. "the key to quality and efficiency is professionalism" the practicing of an activity, especially a sport, by professional rather than amateur players. "the trend toward professionalism"

  3. Table 1 The professionalism requirements of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education

  4. The American Board of Internal Medicine defines professionalism as requiring “the physician to serve the interests of the patient above his or her self-interest. Professionalism aspires to altruism, accountability, excellence, duty, service, honor, integrity and respect for others.”

  5. Professionalism • Often defined as “what not to do” - the opposite of “unprofessional”

  6. Professionalism • Not a destination, rather the journey itself. • Setting the highest standards, in the mundane • Best marked not by a “did” or “did not do”, but an individual’s willingness to engage in ongoing soul searching about choices made in the moment, to do the right thing, situation by situation, patient by patient. • New circumstances, new rules • Demonstrated connection between unprofessional behavior as a student and disciplinary action by the BORM (Papadakis2004)

  7. Professionalism as a First Year Student

  8. Professionalism as a First Year Student • Timeliness • Communication • Dress • Interpersonal conflict management • Self-knowledge

  9. A great year…. • Career exploration • Balance and Wellbeing • Sense of wonder • Resilience development • Friends and colleagues you can count on

  10. What is takes… • Proactive • Planning • Persistence

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