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Teaching Professionalism: A Tale of Three Schools
- Perspectives in Biology and Medicine
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 51, Number 4, Autumn 2008
- pp. 535-546
- 10.1353/pbm.0.0041
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This article compares professionalism education from the vantage points of three different disciplines: medicine, law, and business. In particular, it asks how each of these professions conceives of “professionalism,” and how these different conceptions affect what is taught to graduate students. The object of professionalism education differs among these three disciplines, as do the specific challenges to professionalism and professionalism education. The article offers examples of how professionalism is taught in medicine, law, and business, and what each profession might learn from the others in developing their professionalism education and pedagogy.