Anila Errum, Asma Inam, Faiza Khan, Amir Naveed, Anwaar Ahmed, Tasneem Murad, Imran Jawaad.
Professionalism in Medical Science- a gap to be filled.
Pak J Med Health Sci Jan ;13(1):49-52.

Aims: To analyze the community expectation regarding professional behavior of the doctors and to identify the time allocation of teaching hours of different subjects in comparison with teaching of professionalism. Methodology: This is an ethnographic qualitative research, with focus group interviews, and detailed analysis of PMDC curriculum with emphasis on professionalism. Results: The recorded interviews revealed common words, phrases and sentences which were repeatedly used by the participants of the study which were given codes. 22 codes were identified from the data which are mentioned below in chart-1, from these codes categories are further derived mentioned in chart-2 and in the last themes were finalized in table-2. From all the available data and the detailed scrutiny of PMDC curriculum it was revealed that professional teaching and training have so far not been emphasized in the available curriculum and the doctors trained in Pakistan are totally insert of such entity. Conclusion: The participants of the study stressed on the professional attitude of the doctors and emphasized on its sub-domains such as communication skills, behavior, honesty, punctuality rather than on the cognitive and psychomotor skills. On the other hand, PMDC emphasizes more on the cognitive and psychomotor skills rather than addressing on professionalism.

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