F17 -Are Faculty Responsible for Medical Student Professionalism?

Explicit training and evaluation of professionalism training is a relatively new, or at least newly emphasized, component of the curriculum in medical education.  As basic science faculty are being asked to incorporate and evaluate students on professionalism, it seems appropriate to open a dialogue in basic science circles about what professionalism means, how we can effectively teach it and/or role model it, and how we can evaluate it in our students.  This focus group will explore participants’ definitions of professionalism with the goal of identifying a common definition.  This definition will be tested by comparing examples of professional and unprofessional behaviors on the part of both instructors and students.  Dealing with concrete examples will provide a framework for consideration of how to teach professionalism in the context of the basic science component of the medical curriculum.