Learning medical professionalism is a challenging, evolving, and life-long endeavor. Professionalism in Medicine: A Case-Based Guide for Medical Students helps begin this process by engaging students and their teachers in reflection on cases that resonate with the experiences of life in medicine. Through the book's seventy-two cases, commentaries, videos, and literature-based reviews, students explore the many challenging areas of medical professionalism. Readers will appreciate the provocative professionalism dilemmas encountered by students from the pre-clinical years and clinical rotations and by physicians of various specialties. Each case is followed by two commentaries by writers who are involved in health care decisions related to that case, and who represent a wide variety of perspectives. Authors represent 46 medical schools and other institutions and include physicians, medical students, medical ethicists, lawyers, psychologists, nurses, social workers, pharmacists, health care administrators, and patient advocates.

John Spandorfer, M.D., is an Associate Professor of Medicine and an Associate Dean for Education at Jefferson Medical College, and a Fellow in the American College of Physicians. Charles A. Pohl, M.D., is a Professor of Pediatrics and an Associate Dean for Student Affairs at Jefferson Medical College, and a Fellow in the American Academy of Pediatrics. Susan L. Rattner, M.D., is a Professor of Medicine and Family and Community Medicine and Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Undergraduate Medical Education at Jefferson Medical College, and a Fellow in the American College of Physicians. Thomas J. Nasca, M.D., is Chief Executive Officer of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medicine, a Professor of Medicine and formerly the Gertrude M. and Anthony F. DePalma Dean (2001-2007) at Jefferson Medical College, and a Master in the American College of Physicians.