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Etica educației medicale în contextul globalizării
Ethics of Medical Education in the Global Context

Author(s): Elena Toader
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Editura Lumen, Asociatia Lumen
Keywords: ethics; medical education; globalization; transculturale competence; right to health.

Summary/Abstract: To ensure the quality of medical act and safe for the patient, physicians need to develop a training based on medical education by which to acquire medical knowledge in accordance with specific ethical requirements of contemporary globalization. In this respect integration into educational curricula associated with the professional transcultural competence will create the opportunity to practice in different cultural backgrounds. Only in this way medical education process based on a set of basic skills will really define what is the medical profession, regardless of country or academic institution where the student attended medical education. This paper aims at analyzing the relationship between medical education and globalization from the ethics perspective formulated in a conceptual framework in agreement with literature. This approach trying to highlight what are priorities that globalization train in public health, to what extent medical education corresponds to contemporary globalization and what are the ethical goals of medical education.

  • Issue Year: II/2013
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 577-590
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Romanian