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Resculpting Professionalism for Equity and Accountability

Jessica P. Cerdeña, Emmanuella N. Asabor, Sara Rendell, Tony Okolo and Elle Lett
The Annals of Family Medicine November 2022, 20 (6) 573-577; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1370/afm.2892
Jessica P. Cerdeña
1Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
2Department of Anthropology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut
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Emmanuella N. Asabor
1Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
3Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale University School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut
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Sara Rendell
4Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Tony Okolo
5Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York
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Elle Lett
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6Computational Health Informatics Program (CHIP), Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachuseetts
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Abstract

Recent controversies over the characteristics of “professionalism” and its enforcement by medical educators underscore the racialized and gendered norms implicit in this practice. In this essay, we describe the ways nebulous definitions of “professionalism” imbue White, cisgender, straight, and able-bodied standards to police the boundaries of belonging in medicine. As such, marginalized trainees remain unfinished sculptures, forced to chisel away dimensions of experience and expression to conform to “professional” standards. We seek to resculpt professionalism in a way that centers patients and trainees currently at the margins. This will strengthen the increasingly diverse workforce and ensure that they can effectively address the needs of patients often excluded from quality care.

Key words:
  • professionalism
  • race
  • gender
  • patient-centered care

“A patient of mine whom I had not yet met,” the white coat ceremony speaker began, “once walked up to me and said, ‘Hey Doc!’ When I asked him how he knew I was his physician, he told me, ‘You just look like how a doctor should look.”1

The speaker’s anecdote intended to showcase the power of the white coat as a symbol of the medical profession, a means to secure a patient’s trust. As a straight, cisgender White man, this was his reality. However, we have been told candidly (and in code) throughout our medical training that we do not belong in the field. We—an Italian-Chilean mother, Black woman, White lesbian woman, Black man, and Black trans woman—must reach much farther than a coat hanger for affirmations of our professionalism. For us, it is not enough to show up on time, don our white coats and stethoscopes, and invest our knowledge and humanity in the service of our patients. Often, we must also polish our speech, carve our bodies and dress, and sever parts of our lives to meet the “professional” expectations our mentors and patients set for us.

In this Reflection, we describe the loss that marginalized trainees undergo to comport with the racialized, gendered, and embodied norms of professionalism in medicine. We further propose a new standard for professionalism, one that centers the trainees on the margins, emphasizes competencies most relevant for patient and community well-being, and challenges hegemonic conceptions of the ideal physician.

DEFINING PROFESSIONALISM IN MEDICINE

The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education’s (ACGME) definition of professionalism requires that physicians “presen[t] themselves in a manner befitting of a societal caregiver” and “trea[t] all people with respect and dignity.”2,3 The ACGME Core Competencies for residency reference “professionalism” 17 times, emphasizing role modeling by program directors and faculty, ethical behavior, responsibility to other members of the health care team, and competing objectives of “self-care” and “effacement of self-interest.”3 Though the ACGME focuses this competency on high-quality and equitable patient care, supervising physicians within an exclusionary health care system have used this nebulous definition to police racially minoritized, femme, transgender, gender–nonconforming, and disabled bodies.4,5

Family medicine defines professionalism as maintaining standards of competence and integrity in full service of patients. Physicians should accept responsibility for learning and maintaining standards of discipline, and self-regulate lapses in ethical standards while navigating their own well-being alongside the competing needs of their patients and their patients’ families.6,7 With physicians and students from marginalized backgrounds and upbringings that run contrary to dominant cultural norms, supervisors may view that process of negotiation unfavorably; as such, supervisors may consider trainees’ judgments about building rapport and personal care “unprofessional.” We see this particularly in feedback given to Black resident physicians regarding the tone of their voice, body language, and even use of African American Vernacular English (AAVE) when speaking with patients of similar backgrounds (Table 1).

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Minoritized Trainees’ Experiences19 of Unprofessionalism

Multiple studies—including a now-retracted and widely criticized article assessing social media use among vascular surgery trainees that launched the ironic hashtag #MedBikini—have attempted to characterize the elusive standards of professionalism in medicine.8,9 Behavior and presentations classified as unprofessional or undesirable included wearing Halloween costumes, drinking alcohol, and, yes, posing in bikinis on social media.8 In a study of applicants to dermatology residencies, those who submitted photographs were more likely to match and, among those, women were more successful if they wore collared shirts, shoulder-length hair, and blazers whereas no difference was found among men based on grooming or attire.7 These patterns expose biases against women, queer people, and racially minoritized people whose authentic presentation (eg, androgynous, kinky or coily textured hair) may not align with White standards of beauty.

RACIALIZED AND GENDERED NORMS OF PROFESSIONALISM IN MEDICINE

Despite the ACGME professionalism competency of “treating all people with respect and dignity”2 and the Medical Professionalism Project principle of “social justice”10 and the family medicine norms of considering patients’ social and community context, medicine has a longstanding history of exclusionary practices on the basis of race and gender. As far back as the 1600s, physicians in what would become the Americas safeguarded the economic value of human cargo on the Middle Passage and abetted the practice of human enslavement: surgeons aboard ships carrying human cargo commonly blamed death and disease of enslaved Africans on “melancholia” or “sickly” constitutions, rather than on starvation, water restriction, inadequate sanitation, and forced crowding so that individual bodies “had not so much room as a man in his coffin.”11 In the 19th and 20th centuries, physicians embraced the scientific racism of eugenics, exploiting their training to advocate for stricter immigration policies and reproductive control,12,13 and partnered with the Ku Klux Klan offering to perform castrations on Black men targeted for rumored sexual relationships with White women.14 Physicians, including family physicians, benefitted from urban renewal (or better, “removal”) projects that displaced Black and Brown families from “blighted” areas surrounding hospitals and academic centers, robbing them of wealth. Physicians—historically and recently—forcibly sterilized racially minoritized and disabled women.15 Physicians continue to withhold pain medication from women and racially minoritized individuals, engage with Black patients with more physical distance and fewer positive nonverbal cues, and celebrate superficial efforts to dismantle institutional racism rather than leveraging cultural, social, and financial capital to promote justice.16-18 Women and Black practitioners were barred from medical training and membership in the American Medical Association, and racially minoritized medical trainees continue to confront systemic barriers to medical school admission, encounter ongoing discrimination during training, and achieve less recognition for their achievements.19-21 Success in medicine requires assimilation into a culture of White supremacy that harms minoritized trainees.22

The apprenticeship model of medical education—by which more senior physicians model practical and behavioral standards for trainees to emulate—further reinforces hegemonic ideals. Professionalism implicitly describes the cultural norms, behaviors, and characteristics of the dominant social group: in medicine, this historically refers to straight, cisgender, able-bodied White men. Professionalism is therefore a competency on which only racially minoritized, femme (of either trans- or cisgender experience), gender nonconforming, and disabled trainees are evaluated. In other words, professionalism is our problem, not theirs.

PROFESSIONALISM AS POLICING

A recent study of 3,600 evaluations of 703 internal medicine residents found that Black, Latine, or Native residents were scored significantly lower on metrics of professionalism. In particular, men faculty rated racially minoritized residents 0.13 points lower than White residents in professionalism competencies.23 These findings highlight the unconscious imbuement of racialized and gendered standards in assessment of professionalism.

Although this assessment of graduate medical education evaluation did not further probe into the nature of professionalism lapses, a study of professionalism conducted at 93 medical schools found that most commonly remediated behaviors included “disrespectful communication (by e-mail or in person), inappropriate use of social media, and poor availability” as well as “lack of self-awareness (including of one’s limitations), lack of initiative, and being defensive to feedback.”24 Labeling these acts as “unprofessional” may disproportionately target oppressed trainees for whom social and structural barriers may contrive how their choices are understood. In Table 1, we feature anonymous narratives from minoritized and otherwise oppressed trainees—provided voluntarily on request and included here with permission—that offer examples of how perceived lapses in professionalism may impact trainee careers and obfuscate student strengths with respect to patient-centered competencies.25

We argue that “professionalism” serves as an intentionally opaque catchall to hinder access to the advantages afforded through medical training and group membership.26 In that same study of professionalism lapses among medical trainees, remediation efforts rarely targeted relationships with patients,24 suggesting prioritization of informal “backstage” and “offstage” socialization into the medical profession, rather than “onstage” patient- and community-oriented conduct.27

Further evidence of the inequitable application of professionalism standards surrounds common “offstage” complaints about faculty, particularly those in surgical fields. Students and staff frequently observe high-level faculty making derogatory or demeaning remarks about trainees, exhibiting outbursts of frustration (sometimes to the point of throwing dangerous surgical instruments), and engaging in academic misconduct. One student reported that a gynecologic oncologist repeatedly asked a PGY2, “Are you blind?” because the trainee did not position the laparoscopic camera the way the attending desired.19 Even as esteemed faculty engage in sexist, ableist, racist, and otherwise discriminatory behavior, repercussions rarely adversely impact their careers.20 Those who wield power in medicine do not surveil unprofessional behavior among their colleagues21; as such, the exercise of evaluating professionalism serves to police the boundaries of belonging in medicine.

RESCULPTING PROFESSIONALISM

We call for standards of professionalism that truly adhere to the fundamental principles of patient welfare, patient autonomy, and social justice, rather than as tacit barometers of belonging or exclusion (Table 2). Our proposed standards allow for bidirectional feedback on professionalism to foster safe, inclusive environments for historically and contemporarily oppressed and excluded populations on both sides of the caregiver-patient relationship. The face of the medical profession is changing, and the archetypal physician is no longer a White cisgender man in a suit. Yet, minoritized trainees persist under the expectation that we will carve away aspects of ourselves in a futile attempt to approximate this idealized version of “professional.” We remain unfinished sculptures, navigating medicine as fragments of ourselves, forced to chisel away the perspectives, expressions, and experiences that make us who we are to conform to the career to which we are called.

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Proposed Pillars of Professionalism for Equity and Accountability

Professionalism must explicitly valorize patient-centered practices that enable access to care for marginalized patient populations and that accommodate the varied life experiences, views, and physical expressions of trainees. Race-agnostic definitions and general summons to “respect all” permit intrusion of the dominant, gatekeeping perspective of professionalism.28 As we reimagine professionalism, we must center the margins, focusing on the populations most often excluded from medical practice so that we among the increasingly diverse physician workforce can present our full selves as we care for our patients.

Footnotes

  • Conflicts of interest: Elle Lett, PhD is a Junior Associate Editor at Annals of Family Medicine. The other authors have no conflicts of interest, financial or otherwise, to declare.

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  • Disclaimer: The views expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not represent their institutions or employers.

  • Funding support: Jessica P. Cerdeña and Emmanuella N. Asabor are supported by the National Institutes of Health Medical Scientist Training Program Grant T32GM136651. Emmanuella N. Asabor is also supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Research Scholars Program.

  • Received for publication March 22, 2022.
  • Revision received August 2, 2022.
  • Accepted for publication August 5, 2022.
  • © 2022 Annals of Family Medicine, Inc.

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