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Solid paediatricians in fluid times: Reviving professionalism

Titulo Solid paediatricians in fluid times: Reviving professionalism
Autoría Martínez González C, Tasso Cereceda M, Sánchez Jacob M, Riaño Galán I; en representación del Comité de Bioética de la AEP.
Fuente An Pediatr (Barc). 2017 Jun;86(6):354.e1-354.e4. doi: 10.1016/j.anpedi.2016.10.005. Epub 2016 Nov 30. Spanish.
Resumen Professionalism is rarely taught formally. It is learned by osmosis through the hidden curriculum: a set of attitudes that each one of us transmits unconsciously to students, medical residents, and colleagues. All of us are a model or counter-model of professionalism through a series of values that have been the pillars of our profession since Hippocrates. Values that do not seem to be strong enough to pass our time. There are specific factors of the 21st century such as the financial crisis, the highly technical nature of medicine, bureaucratisation or trivialisation of the medical process that could explain, but not justify, the decline in the values of our profession: Empathy, integrity, solidarity, the altruism, or confidentiality. That is why, from the Bioethics Committee of the Spanish Paediatrics Association we establish the need to revive professionalism. Building and maintaining the values of our profession by training scientifically competent paediatricians, as well as being excellent from an ethical point of view, is part of our responsibility.
URL www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27914993