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Ethics and professionalism in a changing world

Worthington, Roger P.

Facultad de Medicina, UNAM, publicado en Investigación en Educación Médica y cosechado de y cosechado de Revistas UNAM

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Worthington, Roger P. (2015). Ethics and professionalism in a changing world. Investigación en Educación Médica; Vol. 4 Núm. 15, 2015: Investigación en Educación Médica; 175-178. Recuperado de https://repositorio.unam.mx/contenidos/4118309

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Autor(es)
Worthington, Roger P.
Tipo
Artículo de Investigación
Área del conocimiento
Medicina y Ciencias de la Salud
Título
Ethics and professionalism in a changing world
Fecha
2015-07-01
Resumen
While medicine is in a fairly constant state of change, the same could be said about ;the organisation and provision of healthcare, which can lead to conflicting obligations as regard ;ethics, professionalism and the standards to which clinicians are generally held to account. Additional complexity arises if there is confusion as to what these two domains comprise, and ;while there is plenty of literature on ethics and professionalism in medicine, much less has ;been written about the relationship between them. A lay observer could be forgiven for having ;little sense of where one ends and the other begins. It is also possible that few practicing ;professionals have pondered specifically on these issues, and not only should it help educators ;(whose task it is to design, implement and assess programmes and curricula) to have greater ;clarity on these issues, but it could potentially be of benefit to patients as well.Ethics and professionalism are not the same, even though they are closely connected. If ;ethics and professionalism are to become part of the DNA of practicing clinicians, it should be ;clear to everyone of what the domains comprise, and what the terminology means. This could ;make a difference in how doctors behave towards each other, and more importantly, towards ;their patients; attitudes define behaviours, which in turn influence the way in which individual ;episodes of care are given, so this is far more than simply a question of semantics.
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ISSN
ISSN electrónico: 2007-5057; ISSN impreso: 2007-865X

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