Teaching professional values in medical education (original) (raw)

2015, The National medical journal of India

INTRODUCTION One of the foremost concerns of the medical profession today is ‘lack of professionalism’. Professionalism deals with professional conduct. It is defined as ‘the habitual and judicious use of communication, knowledge, technical skills, clinical reasoning, emotions, values, and reflection in daily practice for the benefit of the individual and community being served.’ The medical profession, which enjoyed a large amount of trust and goodwill in the past, has, to an extent, lost its credibility. There is growing mistrust between physicians and patients. Many factors have contributed to this and include market forces, which have led to the commercialization of medical education; the emergence of high-end technologies; a nexus between the medical industry and practitioners for earning money; growing consumer awareness; increasing litigation; the proneness to error that is inherent in medicine; and the stiff competition among members of the profession. Medical schools in dif...

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