Resources Relevant to the Implementation
of Core ACGME-Required Competencies


Module IV
    Professionalism
          Resources




Additional Resources
      
A number of resources are available concerning professionalism. For those wanting more information on the subject, some selected additional resources are presented.

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ACGME The ACGME has compiled a reference list covering many aspects of professionalism. For many citations, a link to the article abstract is provided.

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Medical Professionalism Project The Medical Professionalism Project is sponsored by the ABIM Foundation, the ACP-ASIM Foundation, and the European Federation of Internal Medicine.

Agendas and presentations from meetings are available as is an extensive annotated bibliography covering professionalism, access to care, cultural sensitivity, profit seeking in medicine, quality assessment, and physician unionization.

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American College
of Physicians, American Society
of Internal Medicine
(ACP-ASIM)
The ACP-ASIM offers a Resource Guide to Curriculum Development. In it, they identify a number of competencies that may be useful, including:

     • professionalism

     • medical ethics
     • lifelong learning
     • legal medicine

While this resource was developed for internal medicine residency programs, much of the information is generalizable across specialties.

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Clerkship Directors
in Internal Medicine (CDIM)
The Clerkship Directors in Internal Medicine offer a curriculum guide that focuses on general clinical core competencies. Several of these competencies, bioethics of care, self-directed learning, and communication and relations with patients and colleagues include specific objectives that are related to the ACGME competency of professionalism.

While these objectives were written primarily for use in undergraduate medical education, they may be useful in residency and fellowship training.

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Association of American Medical Colleges
(AAMC)
The AAMC has composed a Graduate Medical Education Core Curriculum to assist programs in meeting the ACGME requirements. The Core Curriculum consists of five domains that map to the ACGME core competencies, including professionalism, biomedical ethics, and scholarly medical practice.

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