Assessment for Medical Professionalism(Professionalism in Psychosomatic Medicine)

Abstract

Medical professionalism is considered as professional ethics to practice medicine competently. Recently, medical professionalism has also gained an increasing public attention in Japan. Methods for assessing professionalism should be developed for teaching it properly. Although some methods for assessing medical professionalism have been developed, medical professionalism is still a challenging area to assess. In this brief review, we tried to introduce the current state of this area while the professionalism in the field of "Psychosomatic Medicine" has to be defined first.