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• Title: When Do Medical Students Become Professionals?(Report)
• Author : South African Journal of Bioethics and Law
• Release Date : January 01, 2009
• Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 248 KB

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Much has been written about the need to revitalise medical professionalism. While most of the literature to date has been directed towards practising physicians and medical associations, there is an increasing realisation that professionalism must be an integral component of medical education. When they begin independent practice, medical graduates will assume all the expectations and requirements of the profession. But just as there is no magic moment when they become fully qualified to treat patients, neither do they become professionals all of a sudden, whether at graduation, licensure or any other time. Becoming a medical professional is a process that begins at entry into medical school and continues throughout the entire training period. (1) Although there are many different definitions of medical professionalism, there is general agreement about its principal characteristics--a specialised body of knowledge and skills, high moral standards, including a strong commitment to the well-being of others, and a high level of autonomy, both individually and collectively (self-regulation). (2) At the beginning of their medical studies, students can be expected to exemplify one of these characteristics, i.e. high moral standards, but not the other two. Curricula are designed explicitly to enable students to master the specialised body of medical knowledge and skills and eventually to apply the knowledge and skills autonomously, i.e. without supervision. Curricula have in the past neglected the development of moral standards, especially their application to medical decision making and behaviour. Some efforts are underway to remedy this problem, but much more needs to be done.

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