Qu’est-ce qu’un bon médecin ?
(2011) Pédagogie Médicale — Vol. 11, n° 3, p. 151-165 (2010)
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- (en) [What is a good physician?] ISSUE: The aim of all medical teachers is to promote the training of “good physicians”. To this end, there are numerous intuitive qualities, some of which are those of a “kind human being”. What qualities are required of a good physician? METHODS: Methodically summarizing the existing literature through the study of the Medline database and the French public health database (BDSP) using the following keywords: “Good doctor” or “Good physician”. Included are studies carried out in the general context of medical care and published in English, French or Spanish. Personal viewpoints were excluded. RESULTS: From 168 initial articles, 10 were selected for analysis. The populations examined involved between 103 and 1488 individuals. Five different viewpoints were evaluated: those of patients, physicians, physicians involved in teaching, medical students, and paramedical personnel. The number of qualities attributed to a “good physician” varied between 7 and 756 and were grouped into 3 categories: medical competencies, interpersonal competencies as they apply to the relationship with patients and colleagues, and moral/ethical aspects. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION: These qualities are part of the responsibilities inherent to the medical profession. The charter of medical professionalism defines medical professionalism as the foundation of a social contract between physicians and society. Physicians involved in teaching have a moral duty to adhere to these concepts, whilst taking into account the complexity of their application in order to pass the concepts on to their students.
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Ibanez, G., Cornet, P., & Minguet, C. (2011). Qu’est-ce qu’un bon médecin ? Pédagogie Médicale, 11(3), 151-165. https://doi.org/10.1051/pmed/2011002 (Original work published 2010)