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Teaching and Evaluating Students' Professionalism in US Medical Schools, 2002-2003
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To the Editor: In recent decades, medicine's expanded ability to diagnose and treat diseases, coupled with dramatic changes in the financing and delivery of health care, have created many new ethical and professional dilemmas for physicians. Related problems, including financial conflicts of interest, end-of-life decisions, and disclosure of medical errors, are now frequently discussed in both the medical and popular press. In response, there have been growing demands for greater curricular creativity and educational accountability in professionalism education. Herein we report on a survey of US medical schools and their current educational practices and needs in teaching and evaluating professionalism of medical students.
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Associate deans responsible for curriculum at the 125 medical schools accredited by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) were sent a survey in September 2002. The survey was based on items from the study by Swick and colleagues.1 The survey asked whether and how medical schools . . . [Full Text of this Article]
Audiey Kao, MD, PhD;
Michelle Lim, BA;
Jeremy Spevick, BA
Ethics Standards Group
Barbara Barzansky, PhD
Council on Medical Education
American Medical Association
Chicago, Ill
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