Professionalism, medical education and our social contract
Dean, T.
South Dakota Medicine the Journal of the South Dakota State Medical Association 59(4): 149 151
2006
ISSN/ISBN: 0038-3317 PMID: 16681163 Document Number: 9697
The guidance provided by Soule and Lindemann is a vital contribution to medical education, but it is much more than that. If all of us as physicians, fledgling and experienced alike, are to be worthy of the privileges and the respect that we seek from society, we must be able to assure society that we adhere to these essential behaviors of professionalism. Our relationship with society may well have eroded somewhat in recent times. Nonetheless, there has never been a time when society was more in need of solid professional skills and reliable medical leadership. We can meet this challenge. However, we will be effective only if we are guided not by our own self-interest but by these central tenets of professionalism. In asserting these values, we will enhance and strengthen both the society we serve and the profession we cherish.
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