Assessment of Professionalism: designing a comprehensive longitudinal system

Royal College of Pathologists, 6 Alie Street, London, E1 8QT

6 June 2025

We are offering this course on the assessment of professionalism for healthcare professions education, to meet the needs of programme leaders and educators in an age of increasing accountability for professional behaviours of healthcare professionals. Healthcare regulators are requiring specific details of how institutions are assessing and managing professionalism issues, both at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

The aim of this course is to provide participants with an overview of the latest evidence of best practice in the literature regarding the assessment of professionalism and the development of professional identity in healthcare education, to enable the design of a comprehensive longitudinal system.

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The objectives are for the participants to

  1. Gain familiarity with the key evidence in the literature in relation to best practice in the assessment of professionalism
  2. Develop skills in designing/choosing specific assessment tools
  3. Acquire knowledge and skills in the design of systematic assessment of professionalism and the development of professional identity
  4. Consider the challenges in assessing professionalism in the healthcare professions
  5. Learn about foundational principles of feedback
  6. Consider the challenges in giving feedback related to assessing professionalism
  7. Design a plan for developing a comprehensive system of professionalism assessment

Programme

0800
Registration
0845
Introduction
0900

Contemporary discourses in the definition and assessment of professionalism

  • Why assess professionalism?
  • Review of definitions of professionalism in the medical/healthcare professions
  • Evidence from the literature
  • Regulatory interest
0945
Group activity: definitions, policies, experiences
1030
Coffee break
1100

How best to assess professionalism: what is the evidence

  • Best evidence on how to assess professionalism
  • Review of a range of professionalism assessment tools
  • Consider challenges in assessing professionalism
1130
Group activity: tools, challenges
1215
Lunch break
1315
The role of feedback
1400
Group activity: feedback conversations
1500
Tea break
1530

Designing a systematic approach to the assessment of professionalism

  • Designing a system of assessment of professionalism
  • Remediation
1600
Group activity: planning a longitudinal system
1645
Final Q & A session
1700
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Fees

£600 per participant

Please note that payments via Telegraphic Transfer and Stripe will incur an administrative tax fee. HPAC does not make any income from these fees as they are levied by the respective service providers.

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Meet the tutors

Katharine Boursicot

Managing Director

HPAC

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Sandra Kemp

Deputy Dean, Innovation and Scholarship, Medical Education

Graduate School of Medicine, University of Wollongong, Australia

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John Norcini

Research Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Upstate Medical University (SUNY) , a Fellow of Presence (a Center at Stanford Medical School) and President Emeritus of the Foundation for Advancement of International Medical Education and Research (FAIMER®)

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