FURTHER READING AND RESOURCES
Test your knowledge of the GMC’s ethical guidance by visiting ‘Good medical practice in action’. You get to choose what the doctor should do in over 60 scenarios: https://www.gmc-uk.org/gmpinaction/
GMC and The Point of Care Foundation guidance on how professionalism is taught to medical students: https://www.gmc-uk.org/education/standards-guidance-and-curricula/guidance/achieving-good-medical-practice/professionalism-in-teaching
Medical professionalism: can it and should it be measured? https://www.bmj.com/content/339/bmj.b4716
Royal College of Physicians Report: Advancing Medical Professionalism, 2018: https://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/projects/outputs/advancing-medical-professionalism
NCSBN Nurses guide to professional boundaries: https://www.ncsbn.org/ProfessionalBoundaries_Complete.pdf
NHS Resolution offers advice, assessment and support when there are concerns about practising clinicians: https://resolution.nhs.uk/2019/07/15/practitioner-performance-advice-assessment-service-and-request-for-input-into-review-of-professional-support-and-remediation-service/
General Dental Council standards and guidance: https://www.gdc-uk.org/information-standards-guidance/standards-and-guidance
Health and Care Professions Council standards of conduct, performance and ethics: https://www.hcpc-uk.org/standards/standards-of-conduct-performance-and-ethics/
Fostering professionalism in the workplace: the role of workplace discussion groups. Gill D, Griffin A and Launer J. PMJ 2014; 90: 56-70.
The many faces of professionalism, Launer J, 2010. https://pmj.bmj.com/content/86/1012/127.short?keytype=ref&ijkey=UXEwY2qrdFyMWaX