Teaching biomedical ethics as professionalism in the United States

• Authors: Mark D. Kuczewski
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Medical education in the United States has incorporated the teaching of biomedical ethics into its efforts to promote "professionalism" as an area of competence. I outline the reasons for the popularity of this approach and show that it is a promising movement that has the possibility for a salutary renewal of the vocation of the physician. I also explore some of the pitfalls of this approach such as the trivialization of the concept of professionalism. Nevertheless, this approach may provide a foundation for fruitful dialogue with other approaches to teaching bioethics to physicians-in-training.

• Publisher: Instytut Filozofii - Uniwersytet Jagielloński
• Journal: Diametros
• Year: 2010
• Issue: 25
• Pages: 30-37

Contributors

author

Mark D. Kuczewski

• Loyola University Chicago

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Identifiers

DOI

10.13153/diam.25.2010.402