Leadership Lived Out ® is a program developed in the Duke University Medical School – Division of Head and Neck Surgery and Communication Sciences to improve professionalism competence as members engage with patients and fellow team members. The program began as a proactive endeavor to bring about a division-wide commitment to excellence in patient care. The LLO ® program is based on the concept that behaviors are conditioned by how one thinks and feels and guided by a certain set of virtues ( Doublestein, Lee, & Pfohl, 2015 ).
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Professionalism Competence: Its Role in Bringing About High-Value Care – A Case Study
Barry A. Doublestein (Regent University, USA), Walter T. Lee (Duke University Medical School, USA), and Richard M. Pfohl (Leadership Peaks, LLC, USA)
Copyright: © 2020
|Pages: 16
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-2949-2.ch011
Abstract
The existing medical education paradigm is not structured in a way that prepares future physicians with knowledge or the skill set to excel in professionalism. The authors provide information in the form of a case study of a professionalism competency development program that was undertaken in the Duke University Medical School Division of Head and Neck Surgery and Communications Sciences, barriers found that impede development, and offer five reforms that are necessary in order to bring about the movement toward high-value care. The authors propose to 1) prioritize professionalism competency training in medical education, 2) make curricular revisions to promote professionalism competency training across the continuum, 3) revise selection criteria for entrance to the profession that deals with basic professionalism skills, 4) institute new prerequisite requirements for entrance to the profession centered on professionalism competency, and 5) require professionalism competency training as part of certification and re-certification processes.