Ethical Challenges in Medical Community Internships: Perspectives from Medical Interns in the Philippines.
Health Hum Rights
; 21(1): 141-147, 2019 Jun.
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ABSTRACT
The Philippine community internship program, originally created to supplement the country's thinning health workforce while providing training to student doctors, poses a legal and ethical challenge for medical interns. Inherent characteristics of the program-such as financial disparities and burdens, the lack of supervision by senior doctors, the competence of student doctors, and short rotation times-can predispose interns to cause harm to the patients and communities they serve. As currently designed, the internship program has the capacity to leave interns unsupervised, at risk of legal ramifications, constantly questioning the correctness of their interventions, and perpetually straddling conflicting role virtues. By failing to ensure that the community internship program has appropriate safeguards in place, the government not only jeopardizes the welfare of interns but also threatens the quality and continuity of care that patients and communities receive, potentially violating their right to the highest attainable standard of health. One medical school recently started a novel internship program that could address the issues mentioned.
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Colección:
01-internacional
Base de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Estudiantes de Medicina
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Competencia Clínica
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Derechos del Paciente
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Internado y Residencia
Tipo de estudio:
Prognostic_studies
Aspecto:
Ethics
Límite:
Humans
País/Región como asunto:
Asia
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Health Hum Rights
Asunto de la revista:
CIENCIAS SOCIAIS
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ETICA
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SAUDE PUBLICA
Año:
2019
Tipo del documento:
Article