Defining fitness and aptitude to practice medicine.
The results of a study to determine the qualities and characteristics necessary for physicians to demonstrate in their practice reinforce the need for a medical school to emphasize the non-cognitive domain in its curriculum. The behaviors described in this study were written as educational objectives so that they could be evaluated with less subjectivity.
Holmes
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DB
Medical Education Unit, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Mann
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KV
Hennen
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BK
D001076:Aptitude; D002983:Clinical Competence; D003142:Communication; D003479:Curriculum; D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate; D006801:Humans; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D010819:Physician's Role; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D012380:Role