Volume 69 Number 6 November 2002	back to contents

Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine and Surgery, and Director, Medical Intensive Care Unit, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY.

Address all correspondence to David M. Nierman, M.D., Director, Medical ICU, Box 1232, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, One East 100th Street, New York, NY 10029.

Presented at the Issues in Medical Ethics 2000 Conference at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY on November 3, 2000.

ABSTRACT

Principles of medical professionalism include humanistic values, altruism, ethical and moral behavior, and a lifelong commitment to scholarship and learning. These principles can provide behavioral guidelines to residents, fellows and their teacher-physicians during the formative years of postgraduate training. This short paper presents some of the challenging professional questions raised during these years of training, where medical professionalism may help to guide us.

KEYWORDS

Professional competence, physician's role, medical education, physician-patient relations

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