Przyrzeczenie lekarskie jako Preambuła do Kodeksu etyki lekarskiej
Medical Promise as Preamble to the Medical Code of Ethics

Summary/Abstract: On 23 June, 1990 the Supreme Medical Council passed a resolution establishing the formula of the Medical Promise. Its verbal content constitutes a particular set of nine virtues, based on the following notions: MASTER, SERVICE TO LIFE, RESPECT, SECRET, DIGNITY, COMMUNITY, PERFECTION, CONSCIENTIOUSNESS, SERIOUSNESS. Each physician about to begin his/her professional activity is obliged to make the Medical Promise. It is usually made by the graduates after completion of university medical studies, orally or in the written form. In a number of medical universities, for example, in the Karol Marcinkowski University of Medical Sciences in Poznan the Promise’s formula is identical with the one in the Preamble to the Medical Code of Ethics. There are, however, medical universities in this country where the Promise’s formula is different. Conceivably, a plausible introduction of the Medical Promise to the Statute on the medical and dental profession, where it is administered to by the president of a regional medical council, could be considered valid.

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