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Fundamentals of Professionalism

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Medical professionalism is a core competency for the healthcare practitioner that has been shown to translate into better patient outcomes while providing an environment for sustained growth and wellness. Significant investments have been made into its research, education, and evaluation. One of six Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) core competencies, it is the very tenet to which all physicians must ascribe to successfully complete their training and achieve a well-rounded medical practice.

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  1. Crozer Chester Medical Center, Upland, PA, USA

    Nosayaba Enofe & Hakan Orbay

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  1. Nosayaba Enofe
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Correspondence to Nosayaba Enofe .

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  1. Division of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care and Acute Care Surgery, Christiana Care Health System, Newark, DE, USA

    Asanthi Ratnasekera

  2. Center for Surgical Weight Loss, Jefferson Health of New Jersey, Cherry Hill, NJ, USA

    Marc Neff

  3. Janet Knowles Breast Cancer Center, MD Anderson Cancer Center at Cooper and Cooper Medical School of Rowan University, Camden, NJ, USA

    Kahyun Yoon-Flannery

  4. Jefferson Comprehensive Weight Management, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Alec Beekley

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Enofe, N., Orbay, H. (2023). Fundamentals of Professionalism. In: Ratnasekera, A., Neff, M., Yoon-Flannery, K., Beekley, A. (eds) General Surgery Residency Survival Guide. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25617-2_31

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