Professional ethics – An approach through value education

Abstract

Profession is not only the means to earn one’s livelihood but also the means of one’s evolution by appropriate participation in the larger order. Through professional education, one acquires the specific knowledge and skills to make contributions beneficial to the living as well as non-living beings. The contradictions and dilemmas in profession exist due to the prevailing world view, in which wealth maximization is perceived to be prime objective. This is what seems to be ailing the present-day medical profession. The development of professional ethics is a long-term process to be achieved through appropriate value education. A systematic approach in the field has been introduced where the effort to understand human reality vis-à-vis the rest of existence, with the prime focus to discover inherent coexistence and harmony at all levels of existence, has been propounded. In this article, the process of understanding, one’s own “natural acceptance”!