Closing the gap between professional teaching and practice

doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7288.685

BMJ 2001;322:685-686 ( 24 March )

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Closing the gap between professional teaching and practice

A policy can help protect students from being asked to behave unethically

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Learning to be a doctor can be uniquely rewarding. Unlike other undergraduate study, clinical medicine has a practical edgesuch that students can directly experience the relevance of theiracademic work through their educational contact with patients.They also have the privilege of experiencing the range of humanintellect, emotion, achievement, and failure embodied in the patientsfrom whom they will learn. Finally, their positive interactionswith patients reinforce the altruism that brought many of theminto medicine. At its best, medical education can make studentsfeel good about themselves and what they are learning, as wellas preparing them for good professional practice. But if a gapexists between their clinical teaching and what they know andfeel to be morally right the effects can be disastrous.¹

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Once their clinical training begins medical students are subject to high levels of stress, and some do not respond well. Thisis . . . [Full text of this article]

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