• David J Doukas and Rebecca L Volpe.
• D.J. Doukas is James A. Knight Chair of Humanities and Ethics in Medicine, director, Program in Medical Ethics and Human Values, and professor of family and community medicine, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana; ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5665-2214. R.L. Volpe is assistant professor and vice chair for education, Department of Humanities, Penn State College of Medicine, and director, Clinical Ethics Consultation Service, Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania.
• Acad Med. 2018 Nov 1; 93 (11): 1610-1612.

AbstractProfessionalism is essential for a successful physician-patient relationship and widely acknowledged as an intrinsic and important component of medical education for learners at all levels, from medical school to residency to continuing medical education. The problem is defining the educational end points for learners and then determining how to assess these outcomes. This Invited Commentary focuses on what medical educators can and should do to refine the vision of professionalism in medical education. The authors propose a multistep process in which learners, educators, and the public are engaged in articulating clearly and definitively the end points of professionalism education.

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