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- Published on: 18 May 2017
- Published on: 18 May 2017
- Published on: 18 May 2017Medical education and a patients "rights"Show More
In the recent article by Draper et al. the authors highlight the increasingly difficult task of patient involvement in medical student practical, technical and hands on learning (1). The authors continue by suggesting that ALL patients should be willing to provide practical experience for medical student learning. The suggestion that a "new and more explicit agreement is needed" to perhaps strongly support or perhaps enf...
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None declared. - Published on: 18 May 2017Moral imperative protects the most vulnerableShow More
Trainees and society alike should embrace the authors’ [1] recommendation to shift the emphasis from patients’ right to refuse student involvement in their care to that of the moral imperative of patients to participate in medical education.
Our current healthcare system places the burden of medical education upon those who through altruism or disempowerment do not veto student involvement in their care [2]...
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