Professional responsibility : [electronic resource] the fundamental issue in education and health care reform / Edited by Douglas E. Mitchell & Robert Ketner Ream.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A brief introduction to the problem of professional responsibility -- Responsibility at the core of public education : students, teachers, and the curriculum -- Medical professionalism and the relevance and impact of the profession on society -- Professional responsibility : its nature and new demands -- How institutional contexts shape professional responsibility -- Professional responsibility in an age of experts and large organizations -- Erecting the pipeline for socially responsible physicians -- How linking university research to school needs influences scholars and schools -- Hidden agendas teaching and learning in medicine -- The role of incentives in promoting professional responsibility -- Getting task structures and institutional designs right -- Supporting educator's professional responsibility for intervention in family health issues -- Professional ethics and virtue ethics in community-engaged healthcare training -- The role of graduate schools of education in training autism professionals to work with diverse families -- Bilingual education as a professional responsibility for public schools and universities -- Policy, structural, role, and knowledge barriers to best practice in school psychology -- Whither collaboration? Integrating professional services to close reciprocal gaps in health and education -- The mutations of professional responsibility : toward collaborative community -- Summarizing the lessons : shaping a blueprint.

"At the center of this book is the complex and perplexing question of how to design professional preparation programs, organizational management practices, public policy systems and robust professional associations committed to and capable of, maintaining confidence, trust and the other hallmarks of responsible professionalism. To do this, we need to rebuild our understanding of professional responsibility from the ground up. We describe how individuals might be prepared to engage in responsible professional service delivery, examine promising options for the reform of professional service systems and finally, outline a reform strategy for improving practice in education and medicine--two essential public services. The nexus of the reform problem in professionalism is establishing a more robust and effective working relationship between teachers and their students; between health care professionals and their patients and between educators and health professionals. Professionalism means acceptance of professional responsibility for student and patient outcomes--not just acceptance of responsibility for technical expertise, but commitment to the social norms of the profession, including trustworthiness and responsibility for client wellbeing. In the past, it may have been sufficient to assume that adequate knowledge can be shaped into standards of professional practice. Today, it is clear that we must take careful account of the ways in which practicing professionals develop, internalize and sustain professionalism during their training, along with the ways in which this commitment to professionalism may be undermined by the regulatory, fiscal, technological, political and emotional incentive systems that impinge on professional workplaces and professional employment systems"