Introduction:

In times where demographic, epidemiological, socio-economic and technological conditions strongly determine the way in which medicine is practiced, forums such as the Congress of the Medical Profession of Catalonia can inform on the new approaches required by current and future medical professionalism.

Aim:

To show the process and the conclusions of a consensus, carried out in the 2016 edition of the Congress, about the new challenges of professionalism and the profile of the physician that the Catalan society will need the next decades.

Subjects and methods:

A participatory and structured consensus process is implemented in three consecutive phases: expert panel, telematic peer-review and intra-congressional debate.

Results:

The active participation of 21 experts, 2,025 telematic contributions and 131 congressional delegates generated a document of shared proposals that has approval rates around 95% and that allows the identification and prioritization of the perceived challenges in professionalism and the attributes of physicians for the recent future.

Conclusions:

Medical professionalism will be directly challenged by the new social conditions and by the proposals for the health systems of the future, where the elements of citizen empowerment, of shared decision-making procedures, of collaborative practices in impeccable ethical frameworks and solid positions of professional and social leadership of doctors will constitute the emerging context of the practice of medicine, to which teaching organizations will have to adapt.

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