scholarly journals Perception of some ethical issues by clinical medical students, physicians and nurses, faculty of medicine, Alexandria university, Egypt

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (Suppl 1) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Ethical Issues

Ethical Issues in Physician Billing Under Fee-For-Service Plans

2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 86-104
Author(s):  
Joseph Heath
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Medical Practice ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Professional Culture ◽  
Physician Training ◽  
Fee For Service ◽  
Moral Obligations ◽  
Moral Dimension ◽  
Physician Billing ◽  
Clinical Accuracy

Abstract Medical ethics has become an important and recognized component of physician training. There is one area, however, in which medical students receive little guidance. There is practically no discussion of the financial aspects of medical practice. My objective in this paper is to initiate a discussion about the moral dimension of physician billing practices. I argue that physicians should expand their conception of professional responsibility in order to recognize that their moral obligations toward patients include a commitment to honest and forthright billing practices. I argue that physicians should aspire to a standard of clinical accuracy—not legal adequacy—in describing their activities. More generally, physicians should strive to promote an integrity-based professional culture, first and foremost by stigmatizing rather than celebrating creative billing practices, as well as condemning the misguided sense of solidarity that currently makes it taboo for physicians to criticize each other on this score.

Personality Differences in Male and Female Medical Students

1972 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 213-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lillian Kaufman Cartwright
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Female Student ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Personality Differences ◽  
Adjective Check List ◽  
General Acceptance ◽  
Interpersonal Effectiveness ◽  
Psychological Inventory

According to the results of two psychological tests administered to freshman medical students of classes 1960–67, Adjective Check List measuring self-concept, and the California Psychological Inventory, describing personality, women medical students see themselves as more willing than men to express feelings and admit weaknesses and as less likely to endorse the extremes of dominant and aggressive behavior. In addition, the female student is more likely than the male to view herself as totally committed to her goals and as relatively content with them. No differences were apparent between the sexes on a cluster of personality scales relating to interpersonal effectiveness (dominance, sociability, self-acceptance, and a sense of well-being). However, on scales that rated responsibility, socialization, and tolerance, and in two of three scales that measured achievement, women scored higher than men. Results of both tests confirmed the belief that women medical students tend to display more sensitivity to relationship values, more general acceptance of feelings, and greater alertness to moral and ethical issues than male medical students. They also value independence and individuality to a greater degree than their male colleagues or educated women in general.

scholarly journals Mentor-Mentee Program with Medical Students: A Successful Program with Ethical Considerations

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-139
Author(s):  
Tin Tin Thein ◽  
Tun Aung ◽  
Aye Aye Wynn ◽  
Win Win Than ◽  
Mie Mie Sein ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Personal Growth ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Clinical Skills ◽  
Support Network ◽  
Mentoring Programs ◽  
Mentoring Program ◽  
Research Experiences ◽  
Additional Support ◽  
Interest In Research

   Background: Mentoring is the relationship of a guide or a teacher with another person/student augmenting his/her carrier growth, knowledge, skills, and experiences implemented by caring, sharing and helping hands. The aim of this paper is to highlight the mentoring, type of mentoring, how important of matching and consideration of ethical issue in mentoring program. Not missing these significant points, mentoring program could be successful in universities including medical faculty.  Methods: The SMART principles of specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and time-bound are essential to structure the matching between mentor and mentee. The rule of etiquette and ethical issues are crucial and beneficial for mentor mentee relationship. Clinical mentoring programs help to develop students’ clinical skills and can increase interest in under-subscribed specialties. Positive mentoring plays a part in reversing the decline of academic medicine, by sparking interest through early research experiences.  Results: There is the short term goal which is to introduce an immediate support network for incoming students and the long term goal is to cultivate a mentoring culture to engage all strata of medical students and every faculty member. Medical students expressed that mentoring program is to provide counselling, develop professionalism, increase students' interest in research, and support them in their personal growth.  Conclusion: The goal of mentorship is to provide additional support to student or mentee by steering of the academic needs or social prerequisites to accelerate the personal and professional development of mentee with advice, guide and feed backs from the mentor. 

scholarly journals PROFESSIONAL CULTURE IN THE CONTEXT OF FUTURE DOCTOR TRAINING

2020 ◽  
pp. 117-121
Author(s):  
І. І. Vorona ◽  
I. A. Prokop
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Professional Education ◽  
Professional Competence ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Training Programme ◽  
Professional Culture ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Teacher Student ◽  
Professional Self ◽  
Amount Of Knowledge

The paper points out the specifics of medical students’ professional culture formation, analyses its components and conditions. The experience of virtual training programme use in Latin classes for medical students is summarized. Development of professional culture is sure to enrich the man’s inner world, as well as to contribute to his (her) professional development and personal self-improvement. Any person reveals himself (herself) most vividly while interacting with the others in performing professional duties, the outcomes often depending on the proper conduct, speaking, hearing, and language.     Training of future medical professionals is an element of professional education and is aimed at providing specialists with a certain level of professional skills alongside with the formation of proper professional qualities and development of general personal culture. Medical educational institutions are supposed to provide future specialists with adequate amount of knowledge, necessary for the work in their field and to make them aware of their professional perspectives and able to influence the process actively and effectively. It is in this aspect that the professional culture is involved, that is demeanour, speaking, hearing, and language matching the generally accepted standards and principles, primarily moral, and the requirements set to the particular profession. Professional culture of the future medical workers is not the sum of professional knowledge, abilities, and skills only, but a part of general spiritual culture that manifests itself in professional competence, readiness for analysis and evaluation of professional and ethical issues, decision-making, communicative skills, as well as conscious striving for self-education, self-development, and constant professional self-perfection. Formation of medical students’ professional culture is a “teacher-student” indissoluble connection based on humanism, creative activity, and common search for new goals and tasks, which increase future specialists’ motivation to attain new peaks in the professional activity. 

Articulating Practices: Methods and Experiences

1996 ◽  
Vol 1 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 239-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arlene M. Katz ◽  
John Shotter
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Primary Care ◽  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Medical School ◽  
Primary Care Physicians ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Medical Knowledge ◽  
The United States ◽  
Mentoring Program

In this article we describe an experimental mentoring program conducted in a major medical school in the Northeast of the United States. In it, primary care physicians mentored medical students in the course of conducting their daily practices. All involved were trained in a special reflecting practice that led them to focus on, and to discuss, concrete events occurring during the day. We illustrate how, both in pairs and in larger meetings, in discussing events within their practice together that they were 'struck by', student-mentees not only came to a more practical grasp of the medical knowledge of the classroom and textbook, but that all involved in the program came to create between them a resourceful community. At work within this program was a practice that functioned, not only to help the students, but the whole ongoing practice: for within it, besides moments of teaching, where other kinds of shared moments to do with the details of clinical practice, ethical issues, administrative problems, and so on — with all involved helping each other with what we have called the appreciative evaluation and elaboration of their practices.

Survey of ethical issues reported by Indian medical students: basis for design of a new curriculum

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anuradha Rose ◽  
Kuryan George ◽  
Arul Dhas T ◽  
Anna Benjamin Pulimood ◽  
Gagandeep Kang
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Indian Medical ◽  
New Curriculum

Further Exploration of the Relationship Between Medical Education and Moral Development

1996 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 444-449 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donnie J. Self ◽  
DeWitt C. Baldwin ◽  
Fredric D. Wolinsky
Keyword(s):  
Medical Education ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Moral Development ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
General Interest ◽  
Course Work ◽  
Interns And Residents ◽  
Severely Handicapped ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

In the wake of a pilot study that indicated that the experience of medical education appears to Inhibit moral development In medical students, increased attention needs to be given to the structure of medical education and the Influence it has on medical students. Interest in ethics and moral reasoning has become widespread in many aspects of professional and public life. Society has exhibited great interest in the ethical issues confronting physicians today. Considerable effort has been undertaken to train medical students, interns, and residents In how to reason through medical-ethical dilemmas. Media attention has focused on Issues such as abortion, euthanasia, care of severely handicapped infants, organ transplantation, and so forth, producing heated debates in both the professional and lay literature over the morality of the various positions. The curriculum of medical education has paralleled and reflected this general Interest in medical ethics. Most medical schools now offer, and frequently require, course work in ethics. However, further research Is needed to better characterize and understand the relationship of medical education to moral development.

Donation Education for Medical Students: Enhancing the Link between Physicians and Procurement Professionals

2005 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 124-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian C. Essman ◽  
Daniel J. Lebovitz
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Organ Donation ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Organ Procurement ◽  
Tissue Donation ◽  
Current Crisis ◽  
Educational Approach ◽  
Organ And Tissue Donation ◽  
Donation Process ◽  
Organ Procurement Organizations

Purpose Increasing healthcare professionals' knowledge about organ and tissue donation; the national mandates regarding referral compliance; and the effect on donors, donor families, and transplant recipients is a challenging task. Physicians not routinely involved in organ donation or transplantation are some of the most difficult professionals for organ procurement organizations to access. A course for medical students was developed to initiate the transfer of information, comfort, and familiarity with the organ and tissue donation process. Methods Discussions with a local medical school revealed that little organized education on organ and tissue donation existed. An elective course was developed consisting of 2-hour lectures, once a week for 6 weeks. Topics included an overview of tissue and organ donation, history and significance of the current crisis, determination of brain death and its role in organ donation, tissue donation, pretransplant and posttransplant processes, ethical issues, and the donor family and recipient experience. Results A thorough course proposal was presented to the medical school's Chairman of Surgery and Chairman of Transplantation. The proposal was approved for first- and second-year medical students. Conclusion Offering medical students a unique and comprehensive course may attract curious students who could become future champions for donation. This type of educational approach may significantly influence future interactions between physicians and organ procurement organizations. If more organ procurement organizations implement this type of program, the medical students' knowledge of donation will not only affect and benefit the local organ procurement organization's service area but other procurement organizations throughout the country as well.

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