It is important to understand the context in which this draft of observable behaviors was developed by a Consultant Group on Interprofessional Professionalism and how they have been refined to express behaviors that are unique to interprofessional professionalism. Behaviors were developed within the broad context of professionalism and in association with a variety of health professions at the doctoral professional level. An iterative process used to develop the list of 43 behaviors began with a review of the literature, identification of terminology associated with professionalism, and development of a glossary. The glossary of terms were clustered into 8 broad core categories that included altruism, accountability, caring, ethics, excellence, care delivery, communication, and respect and expanded into 25 subcategories.

 

Within each subcategory, observable behaviors were expressed in relation to four realms: the individual, the patient, the profession, and society. Initially, identified behaviors well exceeded over 250 behaviors, however not all behaviors were found to be observable and many behaviors could be exhibited by an individual professional rather than being uniquely reflective of interprofessional behavior as a part of a health care team. This process reduced the list of over 250 behaviors to 65 behaviors. A final iterative process was used to winnow the list of 65 to 43 observable behaviors by eliminating redundancies and behaviors believed not to be reflective of interprofessional health care.

 

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