For their study, researchers conducted three assessments to determine whether surgical residents’ professionalism improved in the three years since a professionalism curriculum was implemented. The results from those assessments revealed the following:
• Surgical residents’ perceived professionalism improved in six domains (accountability, ethics, altruism, excellence, patient sensitivity and respect).
• Residents showed improvement in professionalism as rated by standardized patients using the objective structure clinical examination tool.
• Twenty-nine of 41 members of the national Surgical Professionalism and Interpersonal Communications Education Study Group reported their residents’ abilities to admit mistakes, deliver bad news, communicate, respect, handle stress and demonstrate cultural competence was “slightly better” or “much better” compared to five years ago.
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