Educating Physicians for Moral Excellence in the Twenty‐first Century
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14760654 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lenny López (0000-0001-9361-0550, MGH Institute of Health Professions, corresponding author), Arthur J Dyck (Harvard University) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 651-668 |
| Publication date | 2009-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Religious Ethics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0384-9694 • E-ISSN: 1467-9795 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-9795.2009.00406.x |
| OpenAlex | W2020301687 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 41 |
Medical professionals are a community of highly educated individuals with a commitment to a core set of ideals and principles. This community provides both technical and ethical socialization. The ideal physician is confident, empathic, forthright, respectful, and thorough. These ideals allow us to define broadly “the excellence” of being a physician. At the core of these ideals is the ability to be empathic. Empathy exhibits itself in attributes of an individual's moral character and also in actions that actualize and support communal life. Empathy, however, can be diminished or even lost and must be nurtured on an ongoing basis. The development of ethical physicians is strongly linked to experiences in the training period. Moral traits are situation‐sensitive psychological and behavioral dispositions. The clinical environment of medical training programs can be so intense as to lead to conditions that may actually deprofessionalize trainees. Creating a clinical environment that is ethically nurturing and sustaining is an indispensable component of practicing medicine
Compassion · Empathy · Engineering ethics · Excellence · Ideal (ethics · Medical education · Medical ethics · Political science · Psychiatry · Set (abstract data type · Socialization · Empathy and Medical Education · Ethics in medical practice · Innovations in Medical Education · Law · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology
Empathy and Moral Development
The Psychology of Good and Evil
The Virtues In Medical Practice
Narrative Medicine
The hidden curriculum, ethics teaching, and the structure of medical education
Medical Student Distress
Clinical Empathy as Emotional Labor in the Patient-Physician Relationship
Boys in white
Taking Responsibility for Our Common Morality
Getting Rid of Patients
From Jerusalem to Jericho
Empathy
The Healer's Art
| Citations per year | 0.2 |
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| Citation span | 2016 - 2020 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |