Professionalism

& Medical Ethics

Ronald R. Burns, DO, FACOFP

Member AOA Board of Trustees

Member NBOME Board of Trustees

Fellow Federation of State Medical Boards

The concept of professionalism includes the following values :

• Honesty

• Altruism

• Service

• Commitment

• Communication

Commitment to excellence

accountability

Life-long learning

I pledge to:

Provide compassionate, quality care to my patients;

Partner with them to promote health;

Display integrity and professionalism throughout my career;

Advance the philosophy, practice and science of osteopathic

medicine;

Continue life-long learning;

Support my profession with loyalty in action, word and deed; and

Live each day as an example of what an osteopathic physician

should be.

OSTEOPATHIC PLEDGE OF COMMITMENT

Code of Ethics The American Osteopathic Association has formulated this Code to guide its

member physicians in their professional lives. The standards presented are

designed to address the osteopathic physician's ethical and professional

responsibilities to patients, to society, to the AOA, to others involved in

healthcare and to self. Further, the American Osteopathic

Association has adopted the position that physicians should play a major role in the development and instruction of

medical ethics.

Ten

Commitments

to

Professionalism

What is ethics?

Ethics or moral philosophy is the systematic endeavour to understand moral concepts and justify moral principles and theories.

Patient management

Medical informatics

Practical procedures

Patient investigation

Clinical Skills

Health promotion and

Disease prevention

Attitudes, ethical understanding and

Legal responsibility

Decision making skills and clinical

Reasoning and judgment

Basic, Social and

clinical sciences

Personal Development

Role of the doctor within the health service and community

Performance

Of task

How Students Learn

Professional Values

Bring some to medical school with

them.

Learn some through the formal

curriculum.

Learn some from role models.

Osteopathic Patient Care

Medical Knowledge

Interpersonal &

Communication Skills

Professionalism

Practice-based Learning

and Improvement

Systems-based Practice

Osteopathic Medical Competencies

Osteopathic Philosophy

& OMT Required Elements:

1. Knowledge

2. Humanism

3. Primacy of Patient

Need

4. Accountability

5. Continuous Learning

6. Ethics

7. Cultural Competence

Self-Evaluation of Practice Performance

Designed to force “a new way of thinking” about quality and QI

– Quality is not what the doctor does (but what the system produces)

– Quality improvement is not about working harder (or learning more) but is about diagnosing and treatment of system problems”

Designed to promote adult (experiential) learning by creating a safe and credible mechanism for self-evaluation

AOA’s “CAP”

Performance Report

Improvement

Patient Data

Impact

Plan

Do

Study

Act

Practice Systems

Practice Improvement Module

RESPONSIBILITIES OF PHYSICIANS

Maintain skills through ongoing education.

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