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The Personal axis: Personal Principles - (Student) - Professional Practice

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Balancing personal and family priorities with the expectations and patients and colleagues has been shown to have adverse effects on the health of both doctors and medical students.
Students need to grow emotionally, especially in the way they approach their own capacity for error. This cannot be learnt from textbooks. It requires a student to be stimulated to learn ethics, morals and values by being confronted by the frequent conflict between their own ideals and theories and how they see medicine practised in real life.

This learning is facilitated when students are able to participate actively in the ongoing decision-making for 'their' patients within extended community-based attachments. In this situation they often become their patient's advocate.

In a community setting they have the opportunity to develop far less hierarchical relationships with both their supervising clinicians and their patients. They can interact in non-clinical settings such as shopping centres and sporting clubs.

Other viewpoints on this aspect of Community-based Medical Eduction
(Your contribution is welcome. Email to rural@flinders.edu.au)

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Updated June 13, 2007