Science of Morality as the Bases for Understanding Medical Professionalism
- VernacularTitle:2. プロフェッショナリズムの基盤としての道徳性の科学
- Author:
Hideki NOMURA
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- Keywords: medical professionalism; science of morality; slow thinking
- From:Medical Education 2019;50(3):251-259
- CountryJapan
- Language:Japanese
- Abstract: Professionalism is the (right) way of being/doing things as a member of a particular profession. Evaluating legitimacy (right/wrong) of one’s behavior or the behavior of others is a moral judgement. Thus, professionalism is a set of desirable moral characteristics of a particular profession. The education of professionalism firstly promotes learning a set of desirable moral characteristics required in a profession. Secondly, it promotes the resolution of conflict with someone who has different moral characteristics. In this article, a possible learning strategy to promote these learning objectives will be explained based on the emerging knowledge of the science of human morality.
