Vision/Mission
Ohio State University College of Medicine Professionalism Council
Vision Statement: We aspire to create and foster a professional, compassionate, and humanistic environment in which to prepare health care professionals, care for patients, and create new knowledge.
Mission Statement: To create a culture of respect, service, and excellence.
Values Statement: To this end, we will teach, model, assess, and expect these characteristics of professionalism in our teachers and students: altruism, responsibility, accountability, excellence, scholarship, knowledge, skills, duty, honor and integrity, leadership, respect for others, and compassion.
Profession Defined
"An occupation whose core element is work based on the mastery of a complex body of knowledge and skills. It is a vocation in which knowledge of some department of science or learning, or the practice of an art founded on it, is used in the service of others. Its members profess a commitment to competence, integrity, morality, altruism, and the promotion of the public good within their domain. These commitments form the basis of a social contract between a profession and society, which in return grants the profession autonomy in practice and the privilege of self-regulation. Professions and their members are accountable to those served and to society."
Medical Journal of Australia, August 19, 2002, Vol. 177 (4): 208 Oxford English Dictionary. 2nd ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 198.