Patricia Benner
Maxine Papadakis, MD, associate dean of the UCSF School of Medicine, and Patricia Benner, RN, PhD, Thelma Shobe Endowed Chair in Ethics and Spirituality at UCSF, will be part of a panel discussion on "Work and Integrity" on Tuesday.
The panel discussion on the crisis and promise of professionalism in contemporary society will be presented by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching on Tuesday, July 11, from 6 to 8 p.m. at Carnegie's Center for Teaching and Learning, 51 Vista Lane in Stanford, CA. A reception begins at 5:30 p.m.
This free forum is the last in Carnegie's 2006 Community Event Series, "Preparing Professionals for the New Century." It will explore the most current thinking on the various (and often conflicting) ways in which the concept of professional work is understood.
"Work and Integrity" draws on the Carnegie Foundation's comparative study of professional education in medicine, nursing, law, engineering and the preparation of the clergy. Benner is director of Carnegie's study of nursing education.
Panelists will address the meaning of professionalism in today's social climate and will probe the way ethical and professional values are involved in preparing professionals for practice in several fields. They also will propose a new model for professionalism, which aims at humanizing modern work and improving the equity and quality of contemporary life.
"By many accounts, the United States has been suffering from a pervasive decline of social trust and a fraying of civic bonds, weakening the capacity for cooperative organization on which a vital democracy depends," said study director William M. Sullivan, PhD, a senior scholar at Carnegie. "This situation gives urgency and value to the renewal of the civic orientation of professionalism and its effective institutionalization."
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