Professionalism in medical practice

Professionalism in medical informatics.

Charter on medical professionalism: putting the charter into practice.

The following letters from the readers of Annals represent just the kind of debate about professional ethics we had hoped the physician charter would engender. Seven members of the Medical Professionalism Project have responded accordingly. Although we could not hope to address every issue raised, one does seem salient throughout: the apparent conflict between a patient-centered ethic of care a...

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...

Ideology, psychiatric practice and professionalism.

Psychiatry, associated as it is with social and cultural factors, has undergone profound changes over the last 50 years. Values, attitudes, beliefs and ideology all influence psychiatry. Deinstitutionalisation, the normalization principle, advocacy, empowerment and the recovery model are ideologies that have been closely associated with policy, service developments and clinical practice in psyc...

Medical professionalism: the trainees' views.

Medical professionalism is deeply embedded in medical practice in the UK but, with changes in the modern healthcare climate, its nature and role have been increasingly challenged. The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) therefore convened a working party to consider the concept of medical professionalism, to clarify its value and purpose, and to define it. As part of this project, the RCP Trainee...