Developing personal attributes of professionalism during clinical rotations: views of final year bachelor of clinical medical practice students.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Medical professionalism as a set of behaviours that transcends personal values, beliefs and attitudes to incorporate ethical and moral principles is considered a covenant between society and the practice of medicine. The Bachelor of Clinical Medical Practice (BCMP) a three year professional degree was launched at the University of the Witwatersrand in January 2009 in response to a documented shortage of doctors especially in the rural areas of South Africa. The BCMP programme is unique in its offering as it requires a teaching approach that meets the needs of an integrated curriculum, providing for an accelerated transition from the classroom to the patient's bedside.

Methods

Following five week attachments in designated District Education Campuses, 25 final year

SUBMITTER: Mapukata-Sondzaba N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4107478 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature