Ideal Medical Students at Present and Future
SUKHIT PHAOSA V ASDI, M.D.*, YUEN TANNIRANDORN, M.D.*, SURASAK T ANEEPANICHSKUL, M.D.*, CHUMSAK PRUKSAPONG, M.D.**, PHINIT KULLA V ANUA YA, M.D.***
Affiliation : * Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 10330, ** Department of Surgery, Police Hospital, Bangkok 10330, *** Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 10330, Thailand.
Doctors in the future are going to be audited more and more, in line with moral standard of society. If the audit is strongly on the negative side it means that patients and society will be on the opposite side of the doctor. Worse than that, for whatever reason, patients are ever ready to sue doctors. This is not the wish of administrators of all the medical institutions and is worrisome. During the last 5 years many medical institutions tried all means and efforts to improve the knowledge in ethics of the medical students and now we are beginning to see the fruits of this hard work in all medical schools. There is more awareness amongst the teachers but the teaching of ethics to students in different medical schools is still somewhat limited. Now there are new words or systems to study and practise such as ISO and HA. These are progresses in other groups in society stimulating medical institutions to think whether to follow suit or not. However, medical students after having graduated as doctors have to know all the knowledge and must be able to practise. So in the name of Medical Association we, the committee, feel for the future doctors that apart from being competent doctors they must also be sensitive to the feeling of society. Doctors must adapt in time with all the changes in society so that they can live happily and in harmony with society forever.
Keywords : Ethics, ISO, HA
