title: Virtues and values in medicine revisited: individual and global health.
abstract: In response to the call from an international panel for 'much needed rethinking' about the goals and purposes of the education of healthcare professionals, we suggest that there must be an explicit account of the virtues and values that will inform healthcare practice in the 21st century. We propose that a renewed emphasis is needed on reviving the well-honed clinical skills and humanistic attributes in medicine as crucial for optimum affordable (and sustainable) care of individual patients. Analogous virtues should be linked to the quest for improving the health of whole populations, nationally and globally.
authors.affiliation: University of Cape Town, South Africa and visiting scholar, Joint Centre for Bioethics, University of Toronto, Canada solomon.benatar@uct.ac.za.
authors.forename: Solomon
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Benatar
authors.affiliation: Division of Clinical Public Health, University of Toronto, Canada, professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Canada, scientific director, Bridgepoint Collaboratory for Research and Innovation, Toronto, Canada and Canada Research Chair in Primary Care Research.
authors.forename: Ross
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Upshur
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence; D014943:Global Health / Q000941:ethics*; D006801:Humans; D005791:Patient Care / Q000941:ethics*; D028722:Virtues
keywords: Education; clinical; virtues