QEP: Professionalism in Practice
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  • Level Intermediate
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QEP: Professionalism in Practice

Issued by The University of Mississippi Medical Center

UMMC's Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP), “Professionalism in Practice,” is designed to enhance student learning by promoting the development of professionalism in our experiential practitioner curriculum by focusing on the clinical/scientific learning environments. The goal is to benefit students & the healthcare/scientific fields they are entering. Students will be tested using established instruments, including direct/indirect, quantitative/qualitative, self-reported, & pre-/post-test measures.

  • Type Experience
  • Level Intermediate
  • Time N/A
  • Cost N/A

Skills

Earning Criteria

  • Testing instruments will assess students’ professional behaviors, virtues, and identity. Learning Objective: Students will demonstrate professionally acceptable behavior during clinical and scientific learning rotations. Behavior: Professionalism Assessment Tool (PAT): Based on the six elements of professionalism identified by The American Board of Internal Medicine, including altruism, accountability, excellence, duty, honor, and integrity.
  • Testing instruments will assess students’ professional behaviors, virtues, and identity. Learning Objective: Students will apply virtues associated with professionalism during their clinical and scientific learning rotations. Virtues: Jefferson Scale of Empathy (JSE): JSE is a 20-item, seven-point Likert-type scale test that derives an empathy score for each respondent. The JSE has been used effectively to document the decline in empathy observed in medical students throughout their education.
  • Testing instruments will assess students’ professional behaviors, virtues, and identity. Learning Objective: Students will display a professional identity during their clinical and scientific learning rotations. Identity: MacLeod Clark Professional Identity Scale (MCPIS-9): MCPIS-9 measures professional identity in healthcare students. The evaluation consists of eight items ranked using a 5-point Likert response scale ranging from strongly disagree to strongly agree.