What Is a Professional
What is a professional? After a week of research I think it is safe to say it’s not just someone who possesses a marketable skill as I thought. According to Michael Bayles a profession has three necessary criteria.
First he says there is extensive training required to practice any profession. For example, to become a doctor in the United States you have to graduate from a 4 year college in a strong pre-med program, you have to take and pass the medical College Admissions Test (MCAT) then you have to do 3-7 years residency. The second element to any profession has to have a significant intellectual component. For example if you want to be a successful physician, you must have a true intellectual curiosity and devotion about medicine and the sciences and to have the self-determination and motivation to go after it. And third element Bayles said that the trained ability has to provide an important service in society to be classified as a profession. If we were to use the physician again as an example obviously he carries out duties every day in order to help others and save people’s lives.
Some other common features Bayles associates with professions is having good judgment, autonomy in his or her work, organization of members, and credentialing (earning a license or certificate in your occupation). Once again, a physician would be a great example in this case. Only an educated, professional physician with qualified credentials is permitted to treat patients as a medical doctor in the United States.
Referring back to my discussion paper this week I had mentioned a professor named DR. Samer Salti, he was a biology instructor at Portland State University. He is a brilliant, self-determined, well-educated doctor from India. When he lived in India he had attended college then med-school and even worked as a doctor for many years. However, when he moved to the United States the U.S. did not recognize the medical school he attended in India so he is not allowed
First he says there is extensive training required to practice any profession. For example, to become a doctor in the United States you have to graduate from a 4 year college in a strong pre-med program, you have to take and pass the medical College Admissions Test (MCAT) then you have to do 3-7 years residency. The second element to any profession has to have a significant intellectual component. For example if you want to be a successful physician, you must have a true intellectual curiosity and devotion about medicine and the sciences and to have the self-determination and motivation to go after it. And third element Bayles said that the trained ability has to provide an important service in society to be classified as a profession. If we were to use the physician again as an example obviously he carries out duties every day in order to help others and save people’s lives.
Some other common features Bayles associates with professions is having good judgment, autonomy in his or her work, organization of members, and credentialing (earning a license or certificate in your occupation). Once again, a physician would be a great example in this case. Only an educated, professional physician with qualified credentials is permitted to treat patients as a medical doctor in the United States.
Referring back to my discussion paper this week I had mentioned a professor named DR. Samer Salti, he was a biology instructor at Portland State University. He is a brilliant, self-determined, well-educated doctor from India. When he lived in India he had attended college then med-school and even worked as a doctor for many years. However, when he moved to the United States the U.S. did not recognize the medical school he attended in India so he is not allowed
References: 1] & 2]Roman, J., & Zinaich, S., Jr. (2003). Ethics for the professions (1st ed.). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, Cengage Learning.