Abstract
Medical practice in the emergency department is performed under conditions of limited time, facilities and personnel, so it can lead to high-risk situations. The degree of professionalism is believed to be mostly reflected under such settings. We therefore analyzed how junior residents in our hospital think about the professionalism and perspectives of emergency medicine through a questionnaire to those residents who trained under daily practice in our department. As a result, many residents answered that they considered professionalism comprised knowledge, technique, and ethics and humanity. Although the number of emergency physicians is said to be declining, nearly half of our residents were willing to become emergency physicians. To educate an emergency physician with steadfast professionalism, the anxiety faced by staff in the emergency setting must be ameliorated or removed. The need of the general public for medical service is getting higher and higher, and emergency physicians are required who are conscious of professionalism and able to deliver best practice. The development of a system which supports those residents who are trying to be positively concerned with emergency medicine is important for the training of emergency physicians of the future.
