Concept Of Professionalism Research Articles

ESTRATÉGIA DE IMPLEMENTAÇÃO DE AÇÕES EM SAÚDE DOS HOMENS: POTENCIALIDADES E DESAFIOS DA PESQUISA-AÇÃO

ABSTRACT Objective: to analyze the implementation strategies for adult men's health actions in Primary Care. Methods: action-research conducted with 12 adult men and 14 health professionals from a Family Health Unit in the municipality of Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. Multiple data production techniques were employed, namely: systematic observation, semi-structured interviews, field diaries and contextualized photography, across the action-research stages. Thematic Content Analysis and interpretation based on the axes of the National Policy for Comprehensive Men's Health Care were used. Results: three categories emerged from the conceptions of men and health professionals: health care for men, differentiated strategies, and lessons learned. Discussion: the culture of the strong, unyielding provider man who does not get sick and considers illness as a sign of weakness exacerbates toxic masculinity, requiring a transformation through acknowledging that men are not inherently averse to care but, rather, they are socially shaped. Conclusion: recognizing the institutional barriers became important for the discussion regarding access to health services. The action-research challenges and potentialities enabled the elaboration of an action agenda to enhance access and welcoming at the study health unit.

A FORMAÇÃO INTERDISCIPLINAR PARA A ABORDAGEM FAMILIAR NA ATENÇÃO PRIMÁRIA À SAÚDE

ABSTRACT Objective: To reflect on the interdisciplinary training of health team professionals to work with the family in Primary Healthcare, considering the complexity of the family phenomenon in their health and illness experiences. Method: A reflection article in which the need to incorporate new concepts for training professionals to work with the family in Primary Healthcare is discussed. Results: The theoretical articulation between the Patient- and Family-Centered Care Model, Interprofessional Education and Primary Healthcare is fundamental to guide interdisciplinary training in health, aiming at including the family as the protagonist of the care of its members and active in the teaching and learning process of the healthcare professionals. Conclusion: It becomes necessary to promote changes in the training model of health professionals to incorporate collaborative practice with the family.

Через професійну рефлексію – до професійної креативності у підготовці педагога

The article focuses on the study of the relationship between reflective thinking and creativity in professional pedagogical activity at the stage of training future teachers in higher education. The implementation of this relationship is possible through the formation of the future teacher’s persistent need for purposeful introspection of the positive and negative aspects of the achieved results, assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of one’s position, formulation of conclusions and new conceptual ideas, changes in search criteria, which in general could lead to obtaining new results. The opinion is substantiated that since its appearance in the scientific pedagogical discourse, the concept of reflective thinking has been aimed at increasing the creative potential of a person, stimulated his/her self-evaluation. It has supported thinking about the actions performed and their positive and negative results; and inspired the search for non-standard ways of solving problems for personal and professional development and improvement. M. Wallace’s model of reflective approach in the process of teacher education is analysed from the point of view of how it stimulates pedagogical creativity. It is noted that Ukrainian scientists interpret the concept of pedagogical professionalism somewhat more broadly and attach greater importance to the role of a teacher as a reflective researcher, which stimulates creativity in professional activity. The possibilities of the theory of personal constructs of the American psychologist J. Kelly in the construction of dichotomous evaluative judgments for the interpretation of reality, the formulation of one’s attitude towards it, and its subsequent modification towards achieving a new result and creating a new, improved reality are considered. Some target tasks and corresponding methods of organising the cognitive activity of future teachers are recommended, which can simultaneously provide reflective thinking and contribute to the development of creative professional activity. Keywords: reflective thinking, creativity, teacher training, Wallace’s reflective model of teacher education, Kelly’s theory of personal constructs.

METHODS OF COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS FOR RESEARCH OF ANIMAL DISEASES TERMINOLOGY

The article considers the main methods of cognitive terminology and t their application to the study of the animal diseases terminology. The study of terms in the cognitive aspect involves the selection and description of their key concepts, the identification of the main categorical features, the unification of identical concepts into categories of this field of knowledge; presentation in the form of schemes (frames) of individual fragments and the entire structure of science as a whole. Among the above-mentioned methods of cognitive linguistics, it is proposed to use categorization, conceptual and frame analyzes and theories of conceptual metaphor. Examples of the study of terms for animal diseases with the application of conceptual analysis methods are given in a complex way, using the method of frame analysis by S. Zhabotynska, which consists in modeling the concept by combining different types of basic frames. The frame approach was used to determine the informational (conceptual) scope of the terminology of animal diseases, since with the help of a frame it is possible to imagine both the structure of a separate concept and the schematic organization of all accumulated knowledge related to animal diseases. It has been established that the names of diseases are structured in the mind of a specialist according to the categories of "space", "object", "causality", "signs", "quantity", "time". Using the selection of epistemological categories, conceptual features of each category and a bank of terminological tools for their display are established. The study of terminology by means of cognitive linguistics involves the method of presenting conceptual metaphor and metonymy, which allows us to reveal the professional world pictures in a certain field. On the basis of the theory of conceptual metaphor, the cognitive mechanisms of metaphor application to terms were considered and the main donor domains that served as a source of metaphorical nominations of animal diseases were clarified. The study of term systems with the involvement of cognitive analysis methods and the construction of specific cognitive models gives a perspective for a more in-depth consideration of their formation processes and functioning. The methods of cognitive terminology provide an opportunity to understand not only the formation and development of professional concepts and categories, but also their hierarchy, organization, and structure.

ФОРМИРОВАНИЕ ПРОФЕССИОНАЛЬНЫХ КОМПЕТЕНЦИЙ У СТУДЕНТОВ ПОЛИТЕХНИЧЕСКОГО ВУЗА, ОБУЧАЮЩИХСЯ ПО НАПРАВЛЕНИЮ «ТЕХНОСФЕРНАЯ БЕЗОПАСНОСТЬ»

The article deals with the problem of the educational process organization, which contributes to the development of environmentally-oriented professional competence of students studying for the training program 20.03.01 “Technosphere safety”. The paper discusses technosphere safety for the academic bachelor’s degree program provided by the Federal State Educational Standard 3++ in 2020. The research data show the details of the educational process organization during the professional training of a future environmental engineer as well as the components that are included in the concept of professionalism. The notion under consideration is defined in terms of ecological functional literacy, formed as a result of mastering the educational program that ensures up-to-date social and labor market demands. The research work presented in the article was carried out in terms of curriculum. Students consistently performed certain tasks during practical training, classroom studies and independent extracurricular classes, as well as during project activities, which together produce pedagogical conditions to provide gradual purposeful development of general and professional competencies in students. Such competences are necessary for the students of environmental engineering higher school, as an indicator of their occupational aptitude.

Surgical Technologists’ Live Experiences of Professionalization: A Phenomenological Study

Background: The rapid advancement of science and new technologies has brought wide-range changes in all professions, leading to the emergence of new concepts, including professionalism. This study aimed to explain the concept of professionalism from the perspective of surgical technologists. Methods: The present study was a qualitative one with conventional content analysis. A total of 11 surgical technologists were selected using purposive sampling method based on data saturation. Data were then collected using in-depth interviews. Data analysis was performed using Graneheim and Lundman’s approach. Results: In data analysis, three main themes including professional attitude, professional mastery, and holistic professional care as well as seven subthemes were extracted from the data. Conclusion: According to the findings, professionalism indicates the type of attitude of the operating room nurses towards the profession as well as the degree of their mastery in providing professional care to patients.

Smart HRM 4.0 for achieving organizational performance: a dynamic capability view perspective

PurposeThe research examines the role of Smart HRM 4.0 in developing dynamic capabilities and its impact on human resources and organizational performance.Design/methodology/approachThe authors used a grounded theory approach and conducted interviews of 39 senior HR managers from IT, ITeS, consulting, services and E-commerce companies through a semi-structured questionnaire. The authors analyzed the interview data with NVivo 8.0 to identify the themes related to the dynamic capabilities to Smart 4.0 HR practices.FindingsThe study provides a conceptual framework for organizational performance using dynamic capabilities built due to Smart HRM 4.0 practices. Organizations use Smart HRM 4.0 to develop dynamic capabilities: building learning and knowledge sharing capability and integration, reconfiguration capabilities. Further, the dynamic capabilities contribute to HR and organizational performance.Originality/valueThis study divulges the role of Smart HRM 4.0 practices in developing dynamic capabilities in Indian firms. The study provides an appealing insight into the structural link between Smart HRM 4.0 and dynamic capabilities, which are yet to be explored. This study extends the Smart HRM 4.0 and dynamic capabilities concepts for senior HR professionals and contributes to human resource management and organizational performance literature.

Professionalization of Public Service of Ukraine: Specifics of the Process in the Context of Global Challenges and Modern Social Changes

The State is an institution that should be considered as a complex multilevel system, whose managerial effectiveness depends to a large extent on the professional training of its human resources. The purpose of this article is to investigate and reveal the specificities of the process of professionalization of the public service in the context of global challenges and modern social changes. In the study, the essence and understanding of the concept of professionalization was considered, which made it possible to distinguish such approaches as: scientific, normative and legal, professional and educational. The main functions of professionalization of the public service are defined. It is noted that the public service professionalization system has a relationship with the environment, so it maintains the balance and order of its internal environment and resists chaos. Professionalization is studied as a process in the conditions of global challenges and modern social changes. It is concluded that, considering the professionalization of public service as a process in the conditions of global challenges and modern social changes, it is necessary to take into account the opinions and positions of professionals to achieve the best results in this field.

Student experiences of professionalism and role models in an oral and maxillofacial surgery internship: A qualitative study.

Dental students have a clear concept of professionalism and the importance of role models. Our aim was to determine how dental students experience their first oral and maxillofacial surgery internship in terms of their concept of professionalism and their perception of role models. From June to August 2020, semi-structured telephone interviews were conducted with 22 dental students in their eighth and ninth semesters at the Medical Faculty of the University of Ulm. The interviews were transcribed and evaluated by qualitative content analysis according to Mayring. The students' concept of dental professionalism was shaped by the elements of a good approach to patients, professional competence, and manual skills. This perception was not changed by the internship. Having a role model was seen as an important learning strategy, and role models were perceived in both positive and negative ways. Role models were perceived as positive if they corresponded to the student's concept of professionalism and as negative if they did not correspond to this concept, especially with regard to social interaction or the approach to patients. Students' reactions to discrepancies between their own moral values and the role models' behaviour were characterised by passivity and withdrawal. With regard to potential future careers, positive internship experiences supported student goals, whereas negative experiences raised doubts about them. Supervising dentists may still underestimate the considerable impact of internships, and their awareness of this impact needs to be increased. Students' reactions to conflicts between reality and their own values do not appear to be constructive. One approach to solving this problem may be to include discussions of professional development in curricula.

Community Counts: Rural Social Work in East Africa

The community plays a significant role in everyday life in rural African contexts, particularly in terms of coping and in times of crisis. In the East African region, rural communities are diverse and complex, yet most share similar vulnerabilities such as widespread poverty, lack of infrastructure and basic services, and exclusion from broader economic and political developments. They are also highly affected by processes of modernization, globalization, and rural-urban migration. Social work as a profession that deals with social problems is deemed suitable to support rural communities in their struggle for survival. In order to understand the link between community-based forms of problem solving and social work practice, a qualitative study was conducted in five countries (Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda). A total of 155 qualitative interviews and 55 focus group discussions with key informants were conducted. The research revealed a variety of indigenous knowledge systems and innovative coping mechanisms. For rural social work to be relevant and effective, such models should be thoroughly analyzed and integrated into its professional concepts and practice. In this article, some case examples are presented and critically discussed against the background of the African philosophical concept of ubuntu, which is regarded as the ethical backbone of communal life.

Bureaucratic and Market Sources of Epistemic Authority

In International Relations (IR) scholarship, the epistemic communities’ framework has gained relevance for explaining the roles of experts in the context of transnational global governance. However, IR scholars have criticized the framework for descriptive reasoning. This paper aims to strengthen its explanatory power by following rules of a systematic literature review and by using Desmond’s conception of professionalism to further develop Cross’s model of epistemic community. Desmond introduced his concept of professionalism as a response to bureaucratic and market trends in scientific research and Cross developed her concept of professionalism as a comprehensive reconceptualization of Haas’s original model of an epistemic community. The results confirm compatibility between the two concepts. Following the structure of Cross’s model of professionalism, individual autonomy operationalizes selection and training, collective autonomy covers the face-to-face meetings, and the service provision operationalizes the common culture.

Exploring Teaching Conceptions and Practices: A Qualitative Study with Higher Education Teachers in Portugal

In recent decades, several international political guidelines have encouraged the reconfiguration of teachers’ ways of being and acting, specifically arguing for the rejection of the conception of a teacher who holds and transmits knowledge, with inevitable implications for pedagogical practices. Therefore, it is particularly relevant to gain an understanding of teachers’ conceptions and practices, exploring the extent to which they are reconfigured throughout training and professional development processes. With this general objective, a qualitative study is presented, drawing on the content analysis of written testimonies and individual portfolios produced by a group of 24 academics involved in a post-graduate degree course in higher education pedagogy at the University of Lisbon in the academic years 2019/20 and 2020/21. The results suggest a dominant professional conception, embedded in the artisanal paradigm and in line with a teaching conception based on the transmission of knowledge. However, there are signs that teachers challenge this vision of professionalism, revealing diverse conceptions about the profession as well as conceptions about teaching and learning aligned with different types of pedagogical orientation. The study also shows how formal pedagogical training might support changes in teachers’ conceptions about their profession and about the meaning of teaching and learning, with effects on teaching practices and on the quality of student learning.

Research on Information Literacy and Professional Development of Teachers in Higher Education

The development and application trends of information technology, the characteristics of learners in the new era, the requirements of relevant national policies and the realistic needs of online teaching during the epidemic have all placed new demands on teachers' ability to apply information technology to teaching. In the new era, teachers must have good information literacy in order to comply with the teaching trend of the information age. In this regard, how to effectively improve teachers' information literacy has become an important and urgent research hotspot. This paper introduces the connotations and concepts of teacher information literacy and teacher professionalism, the relationship between teacher professional development and teacher information literacy, and the path options for teacher professional development.

Professionalism among academic educational leaders: A concept analysis.

Introduction: The concept of professional ethics of academic educational leaders is an abstract concept for which several highly context-dependent definitions have been provided in the literature. The analysis of this concept is critical to reaching a shared understanding, developing behavioral standards, and designing evaluation measures at universities of medical sciences.Methods:To explain the concept of professionalism among academic educational leaders, Walker and Avant’s eight-stage concept analysis method was adopted. After an extensive review of resources, 37 articles were included and the antecedents, attributes, and consequences of the concept were extracted. Results:An examination of the resources and concept analysis revealed that professionalism in academic educational leaders has three main attributes of care ethics, justice-oriented ethics, and ethics of criticism, and its formation depends on personal characteristics, professional capabilities, and having a systemic view. Conclusions:The identification of components and professional characteristics of professionalism among academic educational leaders provides a shared understanding of professionalism and is a basic step towards designing measures to evaluate this concept.

The assessment of personal and professional identity development in an undergraduate medical curriculum: A scoping review protocol.

Background: Over recent years there has been significant interest in the field of medical education in understanding how medical students develop their personal and professional identity as they transition through medical school and into their early career. Despite the growing amount of research that focuses on the best methods of incorporating this area into medical school curricula, there has been less focus on how to assess this construct and how it might be associated with student progression. Therefore, a scoping review is being undertaken to identify the various methods or tools currently being implemented to assess the development of personal and professional identity, including the concepts of professionalism, leadership and resilience, in medical education and outline an optimal assessment framework. Methods: The proposed scoping review of the literature will be conducted under the guidance of the methodology of the Joanna Briggs Institute for scoping reviews across multiple electronic databases. Electronic database, reference list, and citation searching from the year 2000 will be undertaken. Peer reviewed publications involving assessment methods for personal and/or professional identity formation, professionalism, leadership, and resilience being utilised with direct-entry or graduate-entry medical students will be selected. The search strategy will remain dynamic and may be further delineated as necessary during the review process. All studies that meet this study’s inclusion criteria will undergo thematic analysis. The overall findings of this analysis will be presented in a narrative format. Conclusion: In this scoping review protocol, the current methods and tools for assessment of personal and/or professional identity formation, professionalism, leadership, and resilience will be identified and synthesised into a proposed assessment framework. The hope is that this framework will then serve as an aid to support the assessment of this multi-dimensional, complex construct.

Conceptions of Professionalism in U.S. Research Universities: Evidence from the gradSERU Survey

Recent scholars of the professions have argued that a new hybrid form of professionalism is becoming dominant. This new form combines traditional commitments to ethics and community service with new commitments to managerial and entrepreneurial objectives. We analyze the perceptions of 4,300 U.S. graduate students in 21 fields concerning how well their programs have prepared them for leadership and management and for ethics and community service. These assessments allow us to examine the prevalence of this new conception of professionalism and to examine it in relation to two other conceptions: the “neo-classical” emphasis on ethics and community service as opposed to leadership and management, and another that emphasizes a divergence between business and technical professions on one side and social and cultural professions on the other. Hybridization was comparatively rare but occurred more frequently among students preparing for management, law, and medicine, and among men and students from more affluent families. We also find some support for the neo-classical thesis insofar as students tended to score higher on the ethics and community measure than on the leadership and management measure. However, the largest number of students took positions consistent with the divergence thesis.

Laboratory medicine at the threshold of the new century

The purpose of this work is to make a brief review of the impact that new technologies including automation, cybernetics, informatics, robotics, and telecommunications have had in today's society with a particular focus on the Clinical Laboratory where significant evolution has been evolving through the last two decades of the 20th Century and the first two decades of the 21st Century. Laboratory Medicine is a specialty in which multiple disciplines converge, including Clinical Chemistry and Clinical Pathology, so that nowadays the concept of Clinical Laboratory Professionals has been increasingly accepted. Given that the Medical Relevance is currently the fundamental premise, the understanding and application of the Biological Variability and its importance on the establishment of Analytical Goals is better understood and accepted day. The recognition of the suitability of the laboratory should include the human dimension and the technological dimension starting with the fulfillment of bioethics so each laboratory must have a Code of Ethics dated and signed by all personnel in which they commit themselves not to incur in conflicts of interest, always placing the patient's interest above any other.

A PERCEPÇÃO DE INTERDISCIPLINARIDADE NA EXPERIÊNCIA DE PROFISSIONAIS DA SAÚDE EM CENTROS DE ATENÇÃO PSICOSSOCIAL

Mental health care in the context of the Psychosocial Care Center – CAPS, imposes important reflections from the perspective of the performance of health professionals, where the model of interdisciplinary action emerges as a fundamental aspect for the performance. Thus, the objective of this study was to analyze the conception of health professionals at the Psychosocial Care Center about interdisciplinarity, through their analysis of this concept, as well as its applicability in their practices in professional practice. This is a study of a qualitative method, and for that, non-participant observations in technical meetings and semi-structured interviews in three different CAPS units in a metropolitan region of the city of São Paulo were used. The results point out that interdisciplinarity has been understood as a theoretical construction, being, therefore, sometimes poorly articulated and complex in terms of its applicability. It was also possible to notice a certain lack of knowledge of health professionals about the possibilities of interdisciplinary action, sometimes approaching other practices, such as multidisciplinarity, or even confused with simpler strategies of joint action. With this, the differences presented in the speeches between thinking and doing interdisciplinary go back to the difficulty of understanding, articulation and applicability of these professionals on the subject.

Learners' Perspectives of Professionalism: Protocol for a Mixed Methods Systematic Review.

BackgroundProfessionalism has come to be associated with competence in medical education, with the habitual and judicious use of communication, knowledge, technical skills, clinical reasoning, emotions, values, and reflection in daily practice for the benefit of the individual and community being served. Recent studies indicate students should have the opportunity to observe the application of knowledge and skills by their mentors to improve patient health and safety. A noticeable detail that needs implementation into the curriculum is the inclusion of student perspectives. This review will explore students’ understanding and experience of professionalism in undergraduate medical education (UME).ObjectiveThis paper presents the protocol for a review that aims to develop an integrated synthesis of qualitative and quantitative studies resulting in recommendations for medical school curricula to incorporate the learners’ perspectives in teaching professionalism in UME.MethodsWe will take an integrated approach to synthesis. Data will be extracted from the included studies, and quantitative data will be “qualitized.” PubMed (Medline), Embase, PsycInfo, and ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) will be searched for studies published in English from 2010 to 2021. Studies will be screened and critically appraised for methodological quality using the Mixed Methods Appraisal Tool by 2 researchers, with disagreements resolved by a third researcher. Qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods studies will be considered. Our population of interest is undergraduate medical students; hence, studies on medical residents and graduate medical students will be excluded. We will consider studies that explore how concepts of professionalism are understood, experienced, and taught in undergraduate medicine and on how medical students understand and develop the identified constructs of professionalism.ResultsThis study is in the screening phase; therefore, no results are available at this time. However, we had initiated the searches, screening, and are currently in the critical appraisal stage. We will commence preparation to clean and convert the data for coding in July 2022, and analysis will be ongoing from the end of July 2022 until submission for publication in November 2022.ConclusionsThis research will contribute to the student perspectives on professionalism in medical education literature. The findings will aid in the creation of a checklist to guide the development of a curriculum on professionalism in UME.International Registered Report Identifier (IRRID)PRR1-10.2196/37473

Gender and professionalism: Still a black box a call for research, debate and action. Suggestions from and beyond the pandemic crisis

The gender-professionalism nexus is the source of persistent inequalities in our society. Its continuing relevance emerges even more in the pandemic crisis as a revealing context of social dynamics, showing a “differential in visibility” among welfare professionals, associated with gender, status and power. The attribution of “masculine” and “feminine” connotations (re)produces structures of inequality: there are male/dominant and female/subordinate professions. The exploration of this nexus reveals the existence of two polar meanings of care and body work, as well as two conceptions of professionalism and citizenship. Caring as “therapy” is related to “work on the body” and reflects a classical conception of professionalism aimed at client-citizens; whereas caring as “to care for” is related to “work with and between bodies” and meets better new professionalism aimed at active citizens. Considering gender as professional practice ideology highlights how “gender commonality” is not a solution to inequalities. Furthermore, it can contribute to the deconstruction of the dominance structures. In a such research agenda, narratives of professionals are the key to open the black box. Taking up the challenge to open the gender-professionalism black box is not just a matter of research, but of political action, starting from academia itself.