Do Medical Professionalism and Medical Education Involve Commitments to Political Advocacy?

Do medical professionalism and medical education involve commitments to political advocacy?

Perspective: Medical professionalism and medical education should not involve commitments to political advocacy.

It is increasingly suggested that political advocacy is a core professional responsibility for physicians. The author argues that this is an error. Advocacy on behalf of societal goals, even those goals as unexceptionable as the betterment of human health, is inevitably political. Claims that political advocacy are a professional responsibility are mistaken, the author argues, because (1) civic...

Professionalism: a framework to guide medical education.

CONTEXT Despite considerable advances in the incorporation of professionalism into the formal curriculum, medical students and residents are too often presented with a mechanical, unreflective version of the topic that fails to convey deeper ethical and humanistic aspirations. Some misunderstandings of professionalism are exacerbated by commonly used assessment tools that focus only on superfic...

Medical Ethics Programming for Education of Professionalism

Introduction: Although the medical field is related to the Ethical issues and concepts, naturally, the practitioners and clinical staffs, do not train in the ethical issues, adequately. The lack of knowledge and professional training in this area could be lead to the both doubtful decision-making and ethical reviews, and inappropriate policies. This article considers the reform in the prof...

Journal of Advances in Medical Education & Professionalism

Medical education is a new discipline whichstarted about 50 years ago. The pioneer of thisdiscipline was George Miller from the Universityof Chicago who suggested most of prominentmedical professionals have little or no knowledge ofpsychology of learning and advocated the validity ofpresent medical education in the world.He hypothesized that while very eminent and welltrained scientific oriente...