Teaching Medical Students Social Responsibility
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Teaching ethics to medical students.
While few would deny that some attention must be given to ethical issues as part of a medical student's education it has never been clear how this might be best achieved. And at the present time those who are battling with this problem have a further dilemma. On the one hand, the numbers of ethical issues that face the medical profession are increasing at a frightening rate, ranging as they do ...
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The physician, said Henry Sigerist in 1940, has been acquiring an increasingly social role. For centuries, however, codes of medical ethics have concentrated on proper behavior toward individual patients and almost ignored the doctor's responsibilities to society. Major health service reforms have come principally from motivated lay leadership and citizen groups. Private physicians have been la...
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The above approaches certainly have their place but also have their limitations. The repeated invocation of archival material tends to create an impression that ethical edicts are merely of historical significance and are irrelevant today. Some of the historical texts on medical ethics are based on morality, at times even bordering on the spiritual or the religious. This could be a hindrance to...
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BACKGROUND The approach to and delivery of medical student education has undergone significant change within the last decade. There has been a shift away from didactic lectures to small group tutorials, facilitated by clinicians. Anecdotally there is an impression that enthusiasm for teaching is waning. The aim of this qualitative study is to assess the current attitudes of consultants, across ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Academic Medicine
سال: 2000
ISSN: 1040-2446
DOI: 10.1097/00001888-200004000-00010