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Quality Improvement in Medical Education
Strategies in
Teaching and Evaluating Professionalism (STEP) Partnership, American Medical
Association
Mark Kuczewski, Ph.D., Eva Bading, M.D., Kayhan Parsi,
J.D., Ph.D.
The Stritch School of Medicine is a recognized leader
among medical schools in character education. Drawing upon the values and
resources of its Jesuit and Catholic heritage, SSOM has long embodied an
ethos that stresses the human dimension of medicine and calls the medical
profession to lead in serving those most in need.
SSOM has been selected as one of ten medical schools
who will partner with the American Medical Association to develop materials
and strategies for enhancing the fostering of professionalism among medical
students. As is well known, SSOM has piloted or designed several recent
initiatives in professionalism. The STEP partnership will enable SSOM to
refine these projects and make them cornerstones of the medical school
curriculum. In particular,
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The
Business, Professionalism, & Justice
curriculum will be enriched
and will utilize resources such as the AMA Code of Ethics in discussions
of matters such as Conflict of Interests.
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The
Innovations in Leadership program will be enriched. This unique
program provides training in communication skills, team building, and
conflict resolution to teams comprised of Faculty physicians, residents,
and medical students and asks them to apply their skills in the devising
of an educational project. This program will be expanded to include nurses
and develop these skills across the disciplines.
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The new
Honors Program in Bioethics and
Professionalism will debut to medical students in 2003-2004. It is a
three-year portfolio driven program that seeks to help medical students
understand the norms of the relationships they will encounter as
physicians. The STEP program will assist with development of faculty
mentors for this program.
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