Viewpoint: Professionalism in modern medicine: Does the emperor have any clothes?

Academic Medicine

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 40-45

  Kinghorn, Warren A ^a   McEvoy, Matthew D ^b   Michel, Andrew ^c   Balboni, Michael ^d  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c Harvard Longwood Psychiatry Residency Training Program   (United States)

^d BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MORALITY; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONALISM; REVIEW; ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHICAL THEORY; HUMAN; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE;

CULTURAL DIVERSITY; ETHICAL THEORY; HUMANS; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; VIRTUES;

EID: 33846013965     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ACM.0000249911.79915.4d     Document Type: Review

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