Physician professionalism: definition from a generation perspective.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The primary objective of this study was to determine whether consensuses on the definition of emergency physician professionalism exist within and among four different generations. Our secondary objective was to describe the most important characteristic related to emergency physician professionalism that each generation values.

Methods

We performed a cross-sectional survey study, using a card-sorting technique, at the emergency departments of two university-based medical centers in the United States. The study was conducted with 288 participants from February to November 2017. Participants included adult emergency department patients, emergency medicine supervising physicians, emergency medicine residents, emergency department nurses, and fourth- and second-year

SUBMITTER: Hoonpongsimanont W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6387766 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature