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Objective of the study was to assess the construct validity and reliability of newly developed 48-itemed Professionalism Assessment Tool.Principal component factor analysis and reliability analysis was performed to estimate the validity and reliability. The 48 item Preliminary tool was reduced based on the findings of identical factor loadings and inter-item correlations. The Scale then consisted of 16 items with five subscales (SS), and was called the Professional Assessment Tool (PAT).Four factors were obtained on exploratory PCA. Nine items loaded on Factor 1 and merged the items on the proposed P-SS2 and P-SS3 subscales of “Ethics and personal characteristics” into one (SS1). SS2 was validated as all three items loaded on this subscale were related to “Effective communication and doctor-patient relationship.” SS3 and SS4 separated out the four items included in the P-SS4 of ‘Supports Community Needs and Others’ into SS3 of “Respects and Supports Others” and into SS4 with items related to “collegiality: Responsive to Community Needs and Other Health Professionals”. The 16-item PAT had an overall reliability (Cronbach’s alpha) of 0.856. The Reliability of the new Subscales obtained after PCA for SS1 was 0.767, for SS2 was 0.726, for SS3 was 0.568 and for SS4 was 0.380.The final tool developed for assessment of professionalism had 16 items on a 7-point Likert-like scale, across 4 Subscales, which enhanced its feasibility and practicalit. Results show that it can be used for assessment of professionalism in undergraduate medical students to generate reliable results for valid decision-making for assessment of professionalism in undergraduate students