scholarly journals Bioethical aspects of ethnic prejudice

Sociologija ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 369-380 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra Radenovic ◽  
Karel Turza
Keyword(s):  
A Priori ◽  
Specific Interaction ◽  
Medical Professional ◽  
Medical Professionals ◽  
Racial Groups ◽  
Medical Doctors ◽  
School Students ◽  
Ethnic Prejudice ◽  
Physician Patient Relation ◽  
Physician Patient

It is assumed that considerable ethnic distance is an empirical manifestation of the ethnonationalistic political pattern still dominant in contemporary Serbian society. The results of our research of ethnic distance on a non-representative sample of Medical School students (University in Belgrade) confirm this assumption. We discuss a specific sample -future medical professionals who are a priori expected to be free from all kind of prejudice, while the physician-patient relation implies a complete and unreserved engagement of the medical professional, disregarding patient?s race, nation, religion, sex/gender, age etc. Nevertheless, the findings indicate considerable distance among students toward certain ethnic, national and racial groups. The authors point to the importance of bioethics in the education of future medical doctors since, among other things, bioethics reflects various dimensions of specific interaction/communication in the physician-patient relation. Finally, the authors emphasize the significance of bioethics in critical reflexion of a priori and unquestionable authority of the "white coat".

scholarly journals ROLE POSITIONS OF THE TEACHER AS A FACTOR OF FORMATION OF PROFESSIONAL IDENTITY OF FUTURE DOCTORS

2021 ◽  
pp. 210-216
Author(s):  
A. RAZUMNA
Keyword(s):  
Professional Identity ◽  
Educational Institution ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Professional Community ◽  
Medical Professionals ◽  
Ideal Self ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Motivational Aspect ◽  
Relevant Role ◽  
Personal Approach

The article reveals the influence of the role positions of "mature personality", "qualified specialist", "coach (effective student)", chosen by the teacher-doctor in cooperation with medical students, on the formation of their personal-professional (metaprofessional), professional and educational professional identity. It is stated that professional identity is a stabilizer of personal, professional, developmental educational and professional orientation of the future specialist, is a mental source of building the image of the ideal self. It is noted that in the motivational aspect and improvement of certain own professionally important characteristics and competencies, attempts to meet the socialization norms and modern requirements of the professional community, to which he a priori belongs. The formation of the student's identity in the educational institution occurs in the processes of identification of the teacher as a reference person, self-identification through imitation of his important traits and role positions, reflection of the teacher's assessments of his role manifestations. It is shown that the actualization by the teacher of certain role positions in interaction with students gives them the opportunity to self-identify as individuals, future medical professionals, effective students through the vicar's mastery of specific practical actions. Facilitation support by the teacher of students' actualization of relevant role positions promotes self-affirmation of their respective identities. It is established that in the situation of students' interaction with the teacher two groups of processes are actualized, which determine the formation of their identity: the first - self-determined - is realized as self-determination and self-construction on the basis of observation of the teacher as a model. his role manifestations on the part of the teacher, who facilitates and mentally consolidates his self-identification image. It is determined that the pedagogical essence of the teacher's role positions corresponds to modern pedagogical approaches that are implemented in the training of future medical professionals: the role of "mature personality" - personal approach, "specialist" - competence, "effective student" - student-centered.

scholarly journals Consent to Treatment and Anamnesis as Problem of Communication with Minor Patients in Healthcare Decision-Making

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 57
Author(s):  
Karina Palkova ◽  
Svetlana Semaka
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Medical Professional ◽  
Medical Services ◽  
Medical Professionals ◽  
Healthcare Decision ◽  
Communication Problems ◽  
Legal Relationship ◽  
Healthcare Decision Making ◽  
Consent To Treatment ◽  
Insight Into

Lately lawyers and medical professionals pay more attention too the process of minor patient healthcare. The research shall address the issues of legal relationship between minor patients and medical professionals, consent to treatment of minor patients and communication problems including the scope of information which the doctor can provide to the minor patient’s relatives to protect themselves and patients. Legislation prescribes that the information provided by the medical professional to the minor patient must be not only easy-to-understand, but also be consistent with the patient’s age maturity. However, in Latvia, for example, there are no guidelines that specify how medical professionals can determine the patient’s maturity. In the course of provision of medical services to the minor persons legal disputes involving communiucation failures between the minor patients, their relatives, legal representatives and the doctors arise increasingly frequently. The research will look into issue of communication problems in healthcare. The aim of the research is to provide insight into challenges of legal relations betweem minor patients and medical professionals and communication problems in healthcare.

Equity in high school computer science: Beyond access

2021 ◽  
pp. 147821032110630
Author(s):  
Paul Bruno ◽  
Colleen M Lewis
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Native American ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Computer Science ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Racial Groups ◽  
School Students ◽  
Level Data ◽  
And Gender ◽  
K 12

Little is known about the extent to which expansions of K-12 computer science (CS) have been equitable for students of different racial backgrounds and gender identities. Using longitudinal course-level data from all high schools in California between the 2003–2004 and 2018–2019 school years we find that 79% of high school students in California, including majorities of all racial groups, are enrolled in schools that offer CS, up from 45% in 2003. However, while male and female students are equally likely to attend schools that offer CS courses, CS courses represent a much smaller share of course enrollments for female students than for male students. Non-Asian students enroll in relatively few CS courses, and this is particularly true for Black, Hispanic, and Native American students. Race gaps in CS participation are to a substantial degree explicable in terms of access gaps, but gender gaps in CS participation are not. Different groups of students have access to CS teachers with similar observable qualifications, but CS teachers remain predominantly white and male. Consequently, white and male CS students are much more likely than other students to have same-race or same-gender instructors. Our findings and the implications we draw for practice will be of interest to administrators and policymakers who, over and above needing to ensure equitable access to CS courses for students, need to attend carefully to equity-related course participation and staffing considerations.

Management Skills and Leadership

2015 ◽  
pp. 182-205
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Time Management ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Medical Professional ◽  
Medical Professionals ◽  
Management Skills ◽  
Managerial Skills ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Modern Health Care ◽  
Peculiar Nature

The purpose of this chapter is to explore why juggling all the different and demanding roles of a medical professional is by no means an easy task. Perhaps the biggest challenge for doctors is time management and multitasking. Much of this is part and parcel of an ordinary doctor's life, but due to the peculiar nature and complex paradigms of modern health care services, special emphasis must be put on empowering fledgling medical professionals with such managerial skills. Resident medical physicians and surgeons should at least be aware of the countless opportunities available as well as how to get the best out of them.

scholarly journals Virtual Scribe Services Decrease Documentation Burden Without Affecting Patient Satisfaction: A Randomized Controlled Trial

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 2473011419S0010
Author(s):  
Savannah Benko ◽  
Alex Idarraga ◽  
Daniel D. Bohl ◽  
Kamran S. Hamid
Keyword(s):  
Patient Satisfaction ◽  
Controlled Trial ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Sample Size Calculation ◽  
Smart Device ◽  
Foot And Ankle ◽  
Sufficient Time ◽  
Encounter Time ◽  
Physician Empathy ◽  
Physician Patient

Category: Other Introduction/Purpose: Scribes are utilized as a means to reduce administrative burden on surgeons and enhance the physician- patient interaction. Virtual scribe services (VSS) are a contemporary take on the scribe that use a HIPAA-compliant smart device to record patient encounters for transmission, remote transcription, and insertion into the electronic medical record. The purpose of this study was to determine if the use of a VSS could decrease the total time an orthopaedic surgeon spends on documentation without diminishing the patient experience when compared to traditional post-encounter dictation (TD). Methods: Patients presenting for a first-time visit with an orthopaedic foot and ankle surgeon were consented and randomized to VSS or TD prior to the physician-patient encounter. Time spent with the patient in the exam room and time used to document away from the patient were recorded. A validated post-encounter survey assessed patient satisfaction, perception of physician empathy, understanding of the plan, and perception of the amount of time spent with the physician on scales of 0 to 10. An a priori sample size calculation with an alpha level set at 0.05 and power of 80% estimated that 50 patients were necessitated to demonstrate a 2-minute difference in time spent documenting away from the patient. Comparisons were made using a two-sample Student’s t-test. Results: Of the 50 patients enrolled, 25 were randomized to VSS. No differences in demographic characteristics were identified between cohorts (p>0.05 for each). Time spent documenting away from the patient differed between VSS and TD (1.19±0.65 minutes for VSS versus 5.80±1.70 minutes for TD, p<0.001) as did time elapsed between the end of the visit and the start of dictation (0±0 for VSS versus 123±70 minutes for TD, p<0.001). There was a trend towards more time spent with the patient in the VSS group than in the TD group (14.25±5.86 minutes versus 11.37±5.07 minutes, p=0.069). There were no differences between groups in survey responses regarding satisfaction, empathy, understanding, or perception of sufficient time spent with the physician (p>0.05 for each; Table 1). Conclusion: VSS in an orthopaedic foot and ankle practice decreases documentation time by approximately 4 minutes per new patient compared to TD, resulting in 2 hours of reclaimed physician time for every 30 new patients. With VSS, documentation is completed during the visit versus TD which is dictated on average 2 hours later. A validated survey identified no differences in patient satisfaction, perception of physician empathy and sufficient time spent with the physician, or understanding of the plan with VSS versus TD. Orthopaedic surgeons should consider VSS a HIPAA-compliant documentation option with time savings and no measurable difference in patient satisfaction.

Technologizing and Digitalizing of Medical Professional Skills for a Non-Invasive Ultrasound Theragnostic System

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norihiro Koizumi ◽  
Deukhee Lee ◽  
Joonho Seo ◽  
Takakazu Funamoto ◽  
Naohiko Sugita ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Precision ◽  
Medical Professional ◽  
Industrial Robots ◽  
Medical Professionals ◽  
Medical Field ◽  
Professional Skills ◽  
Medical Robots ◽  
Non Invasive ◽  
Human Skills ◽  
Robot Technology

Information and robot technology (IRT) is drawing increasing attention in the technologizing and digitalizing of medical professional skills. In fields such as manufacturing, high-precision tasks, not possible with human, skills have been already realized by industrial robots. The medical field thus expected to advance with progress in the development of medical robots able to provide diagnosis and therapy that are much more precise than those of conventional medical professionals.

scholarly journals Beyond Binaries: Reflections and a Suggestion on the Subject of Medical Professional Satisfaction

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth McDonald
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Medical Professional ◽  
Medical Professionals ◽  
Professional Satisfaction ◽  
Medicine Management ◽  
Sociological Literature ◽  
The Subject

This article notes the tendency in the sociological literature to frame studies of medical professionals in terms of a series of binaries (e.g. control/resistance, powerful/powerless professionals, medicine/management). It suggests that moving away from this approach to acknowledge a more nuanced perspective would be helpful. The article draws on recent empirical studies to support this view.Keywords: Doctor satisfaction, sociology, control, resistance

scholarly journals Changing Logics in Healthcare and Their Effects on the Identity Motives and Identity Work of Doctors

2020 ◽  
pp. 017084061989587 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graeme Martin ◽  
Stacey Bushfield ◽  
Sabina Siebert ◽  
Brian Howieson
Keyword(s):  
Healthcare Reform ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
Medical Professional ◽  
Identity Work ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Medical Professionals ◽  
Underlying Causes ◽  
Professional Leadership ◽  
Identity Motives ◽  
Large Category

Recent literature on hybridity has provided useful insights into how professionals have responded to changing institutional logics. Our focus is on how shifting logics have shaped senior medical professionals’ identity motives and identity work in a qualitative study of hospital consultants in the United Kingdom’s National Health Service. We found a binary divide between a large category of traditionalist doctors who reject shifting logics, and a much smaller category of incorporated consultants who broadly accept shifting logics and advocate change, with little evidence of significant ambivalence or temporary identity ‘fixes’ associated with liminality. By developing a new inductively generated framework, we show how the identity motives and identity work of these two categories of doctors differ significantly. We explore the underlying causes of these differences, and the implications they hold for theory and practice in medical professionalism, medical professional leadership and healthcare reform.

Construct Validity of Physical Self-Description Questionnaire Responses: Relations to External Criteria

1996 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Herbert W. Marsh
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Construct Validity ◽  
Convergent Validity ◽  
Discriminant Validity ◽  
A Priori ◽  
School Students ◽  
Endurance Strength ◽  
Validity Criterion ◽  
Sports And Exercise ◽  
Highly Correlated

The Physical Self-Description Questionnaire (PSDQ) is a multidimensional physical self-concept instrument with 11 scales: Strength, Body Fat, Activity, Endurance/Fitness, Sports Competence, Coordination, Health, Appearance, Flexibility, Global Physical, and Global Esteem. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the construct validity of PSDQ responses in relation to 23 external criteria, including measures of body composition, physical activity, endurance, strength, and flexibility for 192 (113 boys and 79 girls) high school students. Each external validity criterion was predicted a priori to be most highly correlated with one of the PSDQ scales. In support of the convergent validity of the PSDQ responses, every predicted correlation was statistically significant. In support of the discriminant validity of the PSDQ responses, most predicted correlations were larger than other correlations involving the same criterion. These results support the construct validity of PSDQ responses in relation to external criteria and their potential usefulness in a wide variety of sports and exercise settings.

The Physician–Patient Relationship and Medical Ethics in Japan

1994 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryuji Ishiwata ◽  
Akio Sakai
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Brain Death ◽  
Organ Transplantation ◽  
Terminal Care ◽  
General Meeting ◽  
Medical Professionals ◽  
Patient Relationship ◽  
Physician Patient Relationship ◽  
Physician Patient

In April 1991, a general meeting of the Japanese Medical Conference (called ev 4 years) was held in Kyoto and attracted 32,500 participants, the largest number ever. The theme of the meeting was “Medicine and Health Care in Transition,” and the program Included panel discussions on “How to Promote the Quality of Health Care” and “How Terminal Care Should Be Provided” and symposia on “Diagnosis of Brain Death and Its Problems,” “The Propriety of Organ Transplantation,” and “Brain Death and Organ Transplantation.” These titles reveal not only how medical professionals in Japan perceive the present situatior healthcare but also the Issues that most concern them.

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