Module1 Lecture1
Module1 Lecture1
Module1 Lecture1
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❖ Professionalism: Constituting those attitude and behaviors that serve to maintain patient interest above
physician self-interest. Professionalism is a set of characteristics that displays your ability to be a
hardworking, dependable and respectful individual in formal settings.
Characteristics
True professionals have several crucial traits that apply to almost every industry. Some of them are:
1. Ethics – Doctors, lawyers, and public accountants must follow a robust code of professional ethics. It
would be best if it acted ethically, regardless of whether the business or sector has a formal code.
2. Reliability – It is also critical to return messages quickly and keep your word when you commit. Meeting
expectations necessitates having strong communication skills. Always be cautious while making
assumptions.
3. Competence – Professionals aspire to become experts in their sector, distinguishing themselves from the
competition, extending their education by enrolling in classes, attending conferences, and earning relevant
professional credentials.
4. Appearance – When meeting prospects or clients, pay close attention to how you seem and take style cues
from their dress. Be careful to adhere to or even exceed your company’s dress code requirements.
5. Accountability – Professionals are always responsible for their conduct. If there is a mistake, own up to it
and try to resolve it. Avoid attempting to blame a co-worker. Instead, accept the need for a compromise
when it arises and use the experience to improve.
6. Communication – One of the essential traits of a professional is effective communication. Communication
is listening intently, understanding it effectively, and efficiently expressing a message. Professionals have
an excellent grasp of language, which they use to communicate ideas.
Professional education is a formal specialized training about a particular profession in which learners are
taught the central concepts, principles, and techniques, and how these are applied in real practice, and the
learners also acquire the necessary competencies needed for proper practice and behaviour.
What is Professional Development?
Professional development is gaining new skills through continuing education and career training after entering
the workforce. It can include taking classes or workshops, attending professional or industry conferences, or
earning a certificate to expand your knowledge in your chosen field.
Some companies offer in-house opportunities for professional development, such as training sessions or
mentoring programs, but many professional development programs are done independently.
4. Help Employees Stay Up to Date With Industry Trends to Keep Skills Sharp
Industry trends move rapidly, and it’s important for companies to keep pace with the times. Ongoing
professional development can prevent potential stagnation by maintaining — and improving — employee
skills.
Look for programs that will help you stay up to date, such as those for agile leadership for hybrid work, or
for innovation strategy.
5. Employees engaged in professional development are also more likely to stay engaged in their work
and to be enthusiastic about pursuing their goals.
Whoever adopts teaching as a profession assumes the obligation to conduct himself / herself in accordance
with the ideal of the profession. A teacher is constantly under the scrutiny of his / her students and the
society at large. Therefore, every teacher should see that there is no incompatibility between his precepts
and practice. The national ideals of education which have already been set forth and which he/she should
seek to inculcate among students must be his/her own ideals. The profession further requires that the
teachers should be calm, patient and communicative by temperament and amiable in disposition.
Teachers should:
1. Adhere to a responsible pattern of conduct and demeanour expected of them by the community.
2. Manage their private affairs in a manner consistent with the dignity of the profession.
3. Seek to make professional growth continuous through study and research.
4. Express free and frank opinion by participation at professional meetings, seminars, conferences etc.
towards the contribution of knowledge,
5. Maintain active membership of professional organisations and strive to improve education and profession
through them.
6. Perform their duties in the form of teaching, tutorial, practical, seminar and research work
conscientiously and with dedication.
7. Co-operate and assist in carrying out functions relating to the educational responsibilities of the college
and the university such as assisting in appraising applications for admission, advising and counselling
students as well as assisting the conduct of university and college examinations, including supervision,
invigilation and evaluation, and
8. Participate in extension, co-curricular and extra-curricular activities including community service
Personal value systems are shaped by a variety of factors, including upbringing, cultural background,
education, and personal experiences. They may include a range of values, such as honesty, integrity,
compassion, fairness, respect, or achievement
Values tend to be hierarchically arranged. This may be shown through use of the concepts of means values
and ends values. As the words themselves imply, means values are instrumental values in that they are sought
as part of the effort to achieve other values. Ends values are both more general and more important in the eyes
of the groups who are doing the valuing.
Thus, if health is a value, then the maintenance of good nutrition, the securing of proper rest and the avoidance
of carcinogenic and mind-destroying substances all become means to that end.
The distinction between means values and ends values is a matter of logic and relates to the context of a
particular discussion. When the context shifts, so also may change the definition of particular values as means
values or ends values.
To a narcotics agent, the avoidance of hallucinogenic substances might be defined as an end in itself requiring
no further justification.
To a religious person, health might not be an end in itself but only a means to the continued worship of the
deity. One additional distinction may be useful that implied in the concept of ultimate values.
The concept of ultimate value is arrived at by following the same logical procedures used in distinguishing
between means values and end values, and continuing the process until it can be pursued no further. If good
nutrition is sought as a means to health, health as a means to longevity, and long life to permit one to be of
service to God, is there any higher or more ultimate value than service to the deity? Regardless of which way
the question is answered, it is obvious that one is about to arrive at an ultimate value that can no longer be
justified in terms of other values.