Professional Behavior — A Learner's Permit for Licensure

At probably no point in the history of modern medicine have physicians and medical educators been pulled by so many demands of accountability from such diverse constituencies. Although these demands are varied and sometimes even contradictory, all the constituencies concur that physicians must demon...

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Published inThe New England journal of medicine Vol. 353; no. 25; pp. 2709 - 2711
Main Authors Kirk, Lynne M, Blank, Linda L
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States Massachusetts Medical Society 22.12.2005
Subjects
Bioethics
Education, Medical - standards
Employee Discipline
Licensure, Medical
Physicians - standards
Professional Competence
Professional Misconduct
Students, Medical
United States
United States
Bioethics and Professional Ethics
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Summary:At probably no point in the history of modern medicine have physicians and medical educators been pulled by so many demands of accountability from such diverse constituencies. Although these demands are varied and sometimes even contradictory, all the constituencies concur that physicians must demonstrate professional behavior. In this issue of the Journal, Papadakis and colleagues 1 provide evidence from three medical schools of the association between disciplinary action by state medical boards against practicing physicians and a documented lack of professional behavior (particularly, irresponsibility, diminished capacity for self-improvement, and poor initiative) when those physicians were medical students. William Sullivan of the . . .
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ISSN:0028-4793
1533-4406
DOI:10.1056/NEJMe058275