Desafíos en la formación de los valores del profesionalismo médico en tiempos del COVID-19 y de crisis social



Document title: Desafíos en la formación de los valores del profesionalismo médico en tiempos del COVID-19 y de crisis social
Journal: Revista médica de Chile
Database: PERIÓDICA
System number: 000457841
ISSN: 0034-9887
Authors: 1
Institutions: 1Hospital Las Higueras, Talcahuano, Concepción. Chile
Year:
Season: Sep
Volumen: 150
Number: 9
Pages: 1248-1255
Country: Chile
Language: Español
Document type: Artículo
Approach: Analítico, descriptivo
English abstract The essence of professional education not only involves transmitting knowledge, but also values and attitudes for a practice that allows us to face changing global and national scenarios. Physicians are currently facing new challenges derived from the impacts of the pandemic as well as the social crisis. Increased workload, limited access to health systems, economic uncertainty, and increased public scrutiny hamper physicians to fulfill their responsibilities to patients and society. Likewise, digital learning and few opportunities for face-to-face practice during the pandemic abruptly altered the training process for students and residents. In this essay, teaching of medical professionalism and its values is reviewed, considering the challenges posed by new social and healthcare contexts fort the future professional behavior. This commitment, however, requires not only ethical values but also humanism and social commitment. Medical professionalism acts as a stabilizing and morally protective social force. Thus, it is critical to fathom essential values of professionalism that characterize medical practice today. Indeed, the explicit incorporation of these values in undergraduate and postgraduate programs will undoubtedly allow the training of better professionals for the practice of medicine
Disciplines: Medicina
Keyword: Historia y filosofía de la medicina,
COVID-19,
Educación médica,
Profesionalismo,
Justicia social,
Valores sociales
Keyword: History and philosophy of medicine,
COVID-19,
Medical education,
Professionalism,
Social justice,
Social values
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