Publications by authors named "Kabir Dherwani"
Recent trends in medical education demand practicing physicians to be competent in playing multiple roles. Life-long learning skills underpinned by research & scholarly activity will enable them to play these roles adequately. Therefore, the introduction of structured training in research during early undergraduate years is pivotal.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: As part of a larger project to identify appropriate responses and sanctions for lapses in professionalism by health profession students and trainees--and their teachers--we formed reference groups of medical educators to give preliminary guidance. We hope that these data will help to generate 'a greater consistency' to fitness-to-practice procedures in UK medical schools, and across the health professions, as called for by the UK Council for Healthcare Regulatory Excellence in 2009.
Methods: Having previously identified 42 forms of poor professionalism among students at the 'proto-professional' stage of undergraduate training, of which 37 could also occur in clinical teachers, we asked reference groups of UK medical educators (n=27) and from one medical school (n=35) to recommend appropriate responses by students if they observed lapses of professionalism in their teachers.
Aim: To identify behaviours and attitudes that exhibit poor professionalism at the proto-professional stage of undergraduate health professions education, and investigate the extent and nature of agreement by faculty on appropriate responses by undergraduate students in the UK.
Methods: A preliminary inventory of 69 items of behaviour and attitude was derived from literature review and 1-month observation at a UK teaching site. Reference Groups were formed by e-mail solicitation of senior medical educators in the UK and the Dundee Medical School to identify consensus on the relevant items and the appropriate responses.