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This chapter aims to explore ways to meet prominent headline challenges to professionalism. The first part of the chapter refers to aspects of a report published by the Royal College of Physicians of London, Doctors in society: Medical professionalism in a changing world (2005), commissioned to explore directions for change in professional practice. Though not a full-scale analysis, the chapter relates some of its key features to practical and theoretical issues that have recently arisen in the literature concerning ethics and boundary-crossing especially. These have implications for the headline challenges. The second part of the chapter draws together the contributed chapters in this volume which can potentially address the headline challenges. Main themes that are found to emerge include specificity, holism, plasticity and illimitability, boundary-crossing and hybridity. The contribution of these towards building new forms of practical and theoretical understanding that positively address headline challenges is explored.
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Authors of various chapters, of course, will have their own views as to how or if their contributions address these challenges.
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Clearly “boundary-crossing” is required by hybridity, but not the converse; I have treated these together here because of space restrictions.
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Kanes, C. (2009). Studies in the Theory and Practice of Professionalism: Ways Forward. In: Kanes, C. (eds) Elaborating Professionalism. Innovation and Change in Professional Education, vol 5. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2605-7_10
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