Examples Of Medical Professionalism

Chinwenwa Iheme
Professional Issues

A medical Professional is generally someone in the healthcare field. Medical Professionals are part of a team that delivers services related to humans or animal’s health. Examples of Medical professionals are, physicians; nurses; Medical Laboratory Scientists, and dentists. A Medical professional you must attain a level of education and certification required for a specific medical profession. There are many medical professions; each requires a certain level of education, training and certification. A medical professional must be able to accept responsibility for their patient’s safety. Although educational competency is highly valued, professionals must be of ethical character. They must display integrity,

Professionalism can be viewed as good behavior, trust, professional values, skills and competence a professional or nonprofessional displays. For example, in medical laboratory science there are certain behaviors, codes of conducts, values, skills and competences expected across the board. For an individual in this field, a display of values, behaviors, codes of conducts, skills and competencies specific to the Medical Laboratory science program is called professionalism. Professionalism can be seen in the way an individual relates to people. An example of a context anyone can display professionalism is during an interview. During an interview, one is expected to behave professionally even when the job is not a professional job. Professionalism can be displayed by anybody.

Professionalism is important for health care practitioners because of the nature of the work. The healthcare field involves direct or indirect contact with people from different backgrounds. A healthcare practitioner needs to display professionalism because this is what a patient/society expects during the interactions. As a future medical Laboratory Scientist, I need professionalism to work within a team with fellow worker and health care practitioners in other areas. Professionalism is important in the relationship between doctors and nurses, as well as doctor/physician and Medical Laboratory

It needs to be specialized to make it a habit. Behaviors are something that do not occur magically, but rather grow over time. Professional Behaviors are cultural behaviors, that need to be understood, nursed and fully ingrained in a medical practitioner. These Behaviors take time to develop. It is like a toddler who begins by crawling, standing, working and then running. Professional language follows the same pattern, a doctor is not made overnight, the same with medical laboratory scientist as well as other practitioners. Professional behavior needs to be taught early, so that the practitioner grows with the knowledge of the skill along with the behavior attendant with her or his