professionalism among academic educational leaders: a concept analysis

Introduction: the concept of professional ethics of academic educational leaders is an abstract concept for which severalhighly context-dependent definitions have been provided in the literature. the analysis of this concept is critical to reaching a shared understanding, developing behavioral standards, and designing evaluation measures at universities of medical sciences. this study aims to provide a comprehensive definition of professional ethics among educational leaders of universities of medical sciences.methods: to explain the concept of professionalism among academic educational leaders, walker and avant eight-stageconcept analysis method was adopted. after an extensive review of resources, 37 articles were included and the antecedents, attributes, and consequences of the concept were extracted.results: an examination of the resources and concept analysis revealed that professionalism in academic educational leaders has three main attributes of care ethics, justice-oriented ethics, and ethics of criticism, and its formation depends on personal characteristics, professional capabilities, and having a systemic view.conclusion: the identification of components and professional characteristics of professionalism among academic educational leaders provides a shared understanding of professionalism and is a basic step towards designing measures to evaluate this concept.