TEACHING PROFESSIONALISM AND ETHICS TO MEDICAL STUDENTS- WHAT THE MEDICAL STUDENTS THINK? I happens to be Student of ANDHRA Loyola College Vijayawada in1964 to 1965 for my course in PUC before my Medical Under graduation – and it was Fridays the first lecture was a Moral class, mainly based on Christian teachings, truly the lectures were good but many times we never followed as we are too young to follow the good advises, The great spirit for many was Father Gordon a American his actions and discipline was a great spirit to progress in life, not to forget that Andhra Loyal college has produced most trusted medical profession in society and certainly USA, in the last 5 decades India has grown boundless with the conflicts in morality, ethics and economic matters, Every Medical Teacher carries the mission to make every Medical student a productive individual to make the human suffering reduced and curing the ailment and above all as Doctors hold a position of power and responsibility that demands trust when carrying out professional duties. While doctors are often rated by the public as the ‘most trusted profession’ in the past, no longer today as there is a mismatch between the expectations to live better and cured of the ailments and current advances in Medicine and the faster eroding of human ethics and need for more money, India hugely grown in Medical profession with hundreds of Medical colleges and research Institutes, as medical students they are placed in a somewhat unique position. Unlike many other disciplines of study, they are scrutinized even before entry to university through extensive entrance tests, as NEET Many academic ethical surveys prove many students feel many teachers advise more on discipline than they follow, and they are compelled to follow whatever they think as a dictum, we as students know what our teachers are up in life, we see many teachers hardly do anything both in teaching and publishing fake papers attaining fake PhD degrees or even MD or MS occupying higher chairs to improve their own careers,
WE LIVE IN CHANGING TIMES - As many students say teachers too are confused with conflicts and selfish interests individual most untrusty control us, However, many MERITORIOUS say we learned professionalism from very good of our teacher’s BEHAVIOR TO US AND ENCOURAGING TO THE LEAST PERFORMING STUDENTS, it just means honesty and integrity are core values of professionalism that we must all embody Many students expressed because of demand and supply many teachers and doctors, living with immorality than by professionalism so much rot in the system and express Teachers too need moral classes as happening in Developed countries MANY STUDENTS OPPOSE THE MORAL AND ETHICAL CLASSES AND THEY WISH TO HAVE COMPETENT AND MORAL BEHAVIOR IN TEACHERS?
Dr.T.V.Rao MD @ What students think on Moral classes in medical education