RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Virtues and values in medicine revisited: individual and global health
JF Clinical Medicine
JO Clin Med
FD Royal College of Physicians
SP 495
OP 499
DO 10.7861/clinmedicine.14-5-495
VO 14
IS 5
A1 Solomon Benatar
A1 Ross Upshur
YR 2014
UL http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/14/5/495.abstract
AB In response to the call from an international panel for ‘much needed rethinking’ about the goals and purposes of the education of healthcare professionals, we suggest that there must be an explicit account of the virtues and values that will inform healthcare practice in the 21st century. We propose that a renewed emphasis is needed on reviving the well-honed clinical skills and humanistic attributes in medicine as crucial for optimum affordable (and sustainable) care of individual patients. Analogous virtues should be linked to the quest for improving the health of whole populations, nationally and globally.