ABSTRACT

The university plays an essential role in the education and social development of professionals. This role is vulnerable in that state support is required to foster sustainability and resilience, especially as the university goes about its job of assuring community-focused professionals. Vulnerability theory and its correlate, resilience, offer a lens to look at the university’s responsibility to train professionals who act in the best interest of the community. In the past decades, “professional identity formation” has been a primary focus of medical education. Professional training in key “core competencies” demand development of the character traits, commitments, and skills that are essential to the appropriate knowledge, ethical behaviours, social awareness, and community focus necessary for the engaged healthcare professional. The Covid-19 pandemic has placed previously unconsidered stressors on the university and in doing so, has unmasked a variety of system-generated vulnerabilities. As the university attempts to remain solvent, it has responded so as to decrease the ability of the academic professional to engage in social justice activities. This paper addresses universities’ social justice commitment to their academic (professional) faculty and makes recommendations that Universities might undertake to support their own community-focused commitments.

摘要

该大学在专业人员的教育和社会发展中起着至关重要的作用。这种角色是脆弱的，因为需要国家的支持来促进可持续性和复原力，特别是在大学致力于确保以社区为中心的专业人员的工作中。脆弱性理论及其相关性，复原力，提供了一个视角，可以审视大学对培训以社区最佳利益为荣的专业人员的责任。在过去的几十年中，“专业身份形成”一直是医学教育的重点。对关键的“核心能力”进行专业培训需要发展性格特征，承诺和技能，这对于从事医疗保健的专业人士而言，必不可少的适当知识，道德行为，社会意识和社区关注度至关重要。Covid-19大流行已将以前从未考虑过的压力因素施加到大学上，并且这样做掩盖了由系统导致的各种漏洞。当大学试图保持偿付能力时，它已经做出了回应，以降低学术专业人士从事社会正义活动的能力。本文阐述了大学对他们的学术（专业）教师的社会正义承诺，并提出了大学可能承诺支持其自己的以社区为中心的承诺的建议。