PROFESSIONALISM

Draw on a clinical placement experience and discuss how you relate this to the modular material

Draw on a clinical placement experience and discuss how you relate

this to the modular material

Introduction

Healthcare always been considered as the most vital sector of the economy and society. Therefore, in this paper the author tried to present the evidence of the importance of professionalism in relation to ethics in this field. The purpose of the paper is to give readers an idea about the medical professionalism and also the author shared his own experiences. Being a medical student, professionalism is the basic content of the medical profession because to cure the sufferings of people, one should be very much clear in his mind and must justify the job, so that one could feel the inner satisfaction. Similarly, professionalism is necessary in this profession because when one person come to see the doctor, he/she actually giving his/her life in the hands of the doctor because the person trusts the doctor and it's the job of the doctor not to break that trust between patient and the doctor.

Discussion

Medical professionalism

The medical profession is characterized by a strong commitment to the well-being of patients, high moral standards, and the mastery of a growing body imposing knowledge and skills and clinical autonomy. Physicians' personal values can vary but as members of the medical profession, it is expected that they and they shared values and respect characterize the practice of medicine and patient care.

Medical professionalism includes the once the relationship between a doctor and a patient and a social contract between physicians and society. It provides privileges to the profession, including exclusive or primary responsibility of the provision of certain services and a large degree of self-regulation. In return, the profession should use these privileges primarily for the benefit others and, only incidentally, in own advantage (Blaber, 2012, pp. 60-65). Three main characteristics of professionalism medical - service ethics, autonomy clinical and self-regulation - are beneficial to society.

Service ethic: Compassion, benevolence, respect of the person and Justice (Code Ethics AMC) are the values characteristics. The company enjoys service ethic that makes the provision of medical services, Doctors put the interests of others before their own. The dedication and commitment to the well-being of others are clearly in the interest of patients, who are the first beneficiaries.

Clinical autonomy: The art and science of medicine are very complex. After an extensive training and experience with they acquire, physicians become experts in medicine and healers. Patients have the right to determine to a great extent to which medical interventions they submit, but they expect that their doctor has clinical autonomy due to their recommend treatments that best suited. Even if doctors recognize that they are accountable their recommendations to patients, funders and peers, unreasonable constraints imposed clinical autonomy by governments and administrators, both sectors public or private, are not in the best interests of patients and the fact that they can undermine the trust essential to the relationship patient-doctor is not the least reasons. In addition, doctors are not morally obliged to provide industrial medical services at the request of patients, despite their respect for autonomy thereof.

Self: The clinic has always granted this privilege to physicians. It comprises controlling the entry into the profession by setting standards education and examinations, the authorization of doctors and the preparation and review continuous practice ...