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PubMed1993

Medical students' attitudes toward providing care for the underserved. Are we training socially responsible physicians?

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the association between attitudes toward caring for the medically indigent and years of medical training. DESIGN: Questionnaire comparing attitudes of first-year medical students (MS-Is) and fourth-year medical students (MS-IVs). SETTING: Southwest medical school. PARTICIPANTS: A total of 83 (67%) male and 41 (33%) female MS-I and 65 (73%) male and 24 (27%) female MS-IV volunteers. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE: Self-report, attitudinal scale developed for this study that provided a measure of overall attitudes, perceived societal expectations, physician/student responsibility, personal efficacy, and provision of basic services and expensive procedures. RESULTS: Overall attitudes were significantly less favorable for MS-IVs (95% confidence interval [CI], 99.6 to 106.2) than MS-Is (95% CI, 109.5 to 114.3, P < .0001). Except for basic services (P = .46), MS-IVs had worse attitudes on all attitudes subscales. Male MS-IVs reported significantly less favorable attitudes than male MS-Is in the areas of general attitudes (P = .03) and physician/student responsibility (P = .01). Female medical students showed no significant differences across classes (P > .05). Except for physician/student responsibility, female medical students' attitudes were more favorable than those of males, regardless of class. CONCLUSIONS: The MS-IVs are less favorably inclined toward caring for the medically indigent than MS-Is, though these differences are apparent only for males. Further research is needed to explore why females appear to be more resistant to attitude changes, and what educational interventions are necessary to better train physicians to respond to national health care issues.

Attitude of Health Personnel↗
PubMed1996

The social responsibility of physicians as agents of public health services.

The physician who is entrusted with a large quantity of resources for the treatment of ARF/MOSF has a social responsibility for optimizing the treatment, auditing the outcome, and where possible, preventing the illness. Best treatment includes not only modern techniques but also efficient organization and leadership of the ICU team. Audit is an individual responsibility, may be fruitfully pursued on a multicenter basis, and is a cost-containment discipline. Audit of the St. Thomas' Hospital ARF program has resulted in a predictive scoring formula. This is used to illustrate a cost-effective analysis related to disease severity. Prevention of ARF/MOSF is a challenge to emergency services. There may also be a considerable opportunity to prevent ARF in high-risk surgical patients. A randomized study carried out at St. George's Hospital illustrates the health gains which could result.

Acute Kidney Injury↗
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Medical ethics and education for social responsibility.

The physician, said Henry Sigerist in 1940, has been acquiring an increasingly social role. For centuries, however, codes of medical ethics have concentrated on proper behavior toward individual patients and almost ignored the doctor's responsibilities to society. Major health service reforms have come principally from motivated lay leadership and citizen groups. Private physicians have been largely hostile toward movements to equalize the economic access for people to medical care and improve the supply and distribution of doctors. Medical practice in America and throughout the world has become seriously commercialized. In response, governments have applied various strategies to constrain physicians and induce more socially responsible behavior. But such external pressures should not be necessary if a broad socially oriented code of medical ethics were followed. Health care system changes would be most effective, but medical education could be thoroughly recast to clarify community health problems and policies required to meet them. Sigerist proposed such a new medical curriculum in 1941; if it had been introduced, a social code of medical ethics would not now seem utopian. An international conference might well be convened to consider how physicians should be educated to reach the inspiring goals of the World Health Organization.

Attitude of Health Personnel↗
PubMed1998

The social responsibilities of the physician.

The 1997 Keynote Address for the White Coat Ceremony at St George's University School of Medicine indicates the importance of social medicine in the work of the physician and urges the students beginning the study of medicine to devote themselves to equitable provision of medical care, to prevention of disease and promotion of health, and to promotion of social well-being.

Ethics, Medical↗