Professionalism in Medical Practise and as a Student

Question 1

Doctors moral failures (4)

Answer 1

1. False Reports
2. Overlooking indicators
3. Not examining patient properly
4. Allowing patient to be transported in vehicle other than the ambulance

Question 2

Professional bodies’s moral failures (4)

Answer 2

1. Initially supported finding of preliminary enquiry
2. Did not dicipline doctors
3. SMDC took action against doctor after court order
4. Took 8 years

Question 3

Implications of both moral failures (3)

Answer 3

1. Brought profession into disrepute
2. Challenged public trsut of the profession
3. Doctors are judged harshly bc this is a moral profession

Question 4

T/F you are mostly regulated by your peers

Answer 4

True (but the ones at senior level)

Question 5

Professional council’s existence evidence of special priviledge an responsibility

Answer 5

based on basic respect for the HC professions

Question 6

HPCSA role

Answer 6

oversees healthcare professionals and ensures ethical and professional standards to protect public health and safety

Question 7

Profession

Answer 7

An occupation that requires proficiency in specialised skills and knowledge applicable to their occupation practise through prolonged programme of education and training

Question 8

Charactersistics qualifying HC as a status profession (3)

Answer 8

1. requires mastering a complex body of knowledge and skills to be used for the service of others
2. members adhere to code of ethics and are commited to competence, integrity and morality
3. basis of commitment made health care professionals is a social contract between the society and the profession

Question 9

Does this knowledge acquired belong to the health care professional

Answer 9

No…

Question 10

Mastering a complex body of knowledge (5)

Answer 10

1. Knowledge and skills that arent available to just anyone
2. Knowledge that can do good or harm
3. Access to work eith the state of art quipment
4. To dissect human bodies
5. To perfect their skills on real patients

Question 11

One specific moral obligation for HCP

Answer 11

To have their patient’s best interest at heart

Question 12

Ethical obligations (5)

Answer 12

1. Expect knowledge and competence
2. Honest provision of services
3. Respect for boundaries of the professional relationship
4. Protection of patients’ confidential information and privacy
5. Treating clients respectfully and politely

Question 13

Where does the morality of medicine mostly derive from

Answer 13

from the fact that the HCP swears an oath acknowledging primacy of the patient in his or her work as a physicican

Question 14

Give an account of the notion of a social contract and its implications for professionalism

Question 15

Two essential components of bioethics

Answer 15

1. Ethical evaluation/ analysis of major bioethical issues
2. Professional ethics

Question 16

Ethical evaluation/ analysis of major bioethical issues (5)

Answer 16

1. Identify ethical dilemmas withing the HC profession and medicine
2. Use moral theories, philosphy, rational arguments to solve these ethical problems
3. Teachers equip students with cognitive skills to reason through complex ethical issues
4. Encourage self reflective critical reasoning to resoev these issues, not a position
5. Academic values prompted: CCCRAPT

Question 17

Professional ethics definition

Answer 17

standards of behaviour expected from health care professionals

Question 18

Professional ethics of HCP encompasses a knwoledge and understanding of: (3)

Answer 18

1. The regulations and guidelines of professional councils
2. The laws applicable to health care professionals and their practice
3. The expectation of colleagues, spciety, patients, employers and profession

Question 19

Code of Hammurabi (1750 BCE)

Answer 19

if a doctor using a bronze lancet should casue death or loss of an eye his hand should be cut off

Question 20

Sanctuary of Asclepias

Answer 20

“docotrs should be like god”

Question 21

5 Principles of the hippocratic oath

Answer 21

1. Beneficience (seeking to benefit others)
2. Non- maleficience ( seeking not to harm others
3. Privacy and confidentiality
4. Avoidance of crossing professional boundaries and innapropriate relationships
5. Professionalism

Question 22

Examples of unprofessional conduct that could lead to disciplinary action (9)

Answer 22

1. Racial discrimination
2. Over charging
3. Disclosure of patient information
4. Improper relationship with patients
5. Over servicing
6. Rude behaviour towards patients
7. Unauthorised advertising
8. Incompetence wth regard to treatment of patient
9. Operating without patient consent

Question 23

one reason to comply to the code of ethics? is it a standalone? and is it really ethics?

Answer 23

• to stay out of trouble
• no, it is pragmatics