Profesionalismo e identidad médica

Abstract

Medical education has experienced in recent decades an important renewal movement based on the incorporation of competencies and the introduction of the construct of Professionalism in order to rescue the traditional attributes and behaviours of the profession. Although these changes have been incorporated into the undergraduate and graduate curricula, the results have been unsatisfactory, which has been attributed to the intervention of the hidden curriculum. The emerging concept of professional identity in medicine is reviewed and so is the tendency to assume the development of a medical identity as an explicit goal of medical education. A specific program to attain that objective is described and some conceptual and operative adjustments are mentioned which would favour the accomplishment of that goal.