Medical education and its influence on shaping professionalism and trust in the medical profession
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https://doi.org/10.26485/PS/2022/71.2/6Abstract
In the second half of the 20th century in the USA and Western Europe, representatives of science and the medical community noticed that the medical profession was experiencing a crisis. Due to the influence of various external factors (technology development, dependence on pharmaceutical companies) and internal factors (the desire to achieve high material status), doctors have begun to depart from the values that were important so far, which referred to the so-called traditional professionalism. All this contributed to a gradual decline in social confidence in doctors around the world. In order to counteract these negative tendencies, scientific research on medical professionalism was initiated in the West, and training for medical students in the field of professionalism was introduced. However, it was understood that professionalism cannot be taught to future doctors only during obligatory lectures (formal curriculum), the most important thing is to observe medical personnel who will present a professional attitude (informal curriculum) by their behaviour. The article deals with the issue of professionalism and its acquisition by medical students in the process of formal and informal undergraduate education, indicating that rebuilding professionalism may be the key to increasing public confidence in the medical profession. This process, however, is not easy because the pattern for current students are their older colleagues, who do not always present behaviours and attitudes considered professional. The article presents the results of the study conducted in 2020 on a group of 239 final-year students of the Faculty of Medicine at the Medical University of Lodz, regarding the assessment of their own medical education process and the assessment of the professionalism of their mentors, i.e. senior doctors.
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