Connect
MJA
MJA

“They liked it if you said you cried”: how medical students perceive the teaching of professionalism

Geoffrey J McColl, Barbara D Goss, Eleanor M Flynn and Agnes E Dodds
Med J Aust 2014; 200 (1): . || doi: 10.5694/mja13.11230
Published online: 20 January 2014

To the Editor: We were not surprised by the results of Birden and Underwood’s study of the attitudes of medical students to professionalism programs.1 In the context of similar issues at our university, we have recently implemented a professionalism program (“Ethical Practice–Empathic Practice” [EP2]) in our Doctor of Medicine (MD) course.


  • Melbourne Medical School, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC.


Correspondence: gjmccoll@unimelb.edu.au

Competing interests:

No relevant disclosures.

  • 1. Birden HH, Usherwood T. “They liked it if you said you cried”: how medical students perceive the teaching of professionalism. Med J Aust 2013; 198: 406-409. <MJA full text>
  • 2. Symonds IM, Talley NJ. Can professionalism be taught? Med J Aust 2013; 198: 380-381. <MJA full text>
  • 3. Reid K, Dodds A. Evaluation of Principles of Clinical Practice 2 (technical report). Melbourne: University of Melbourne, 2013.

Author

remove_circle_outline Delete Author
add_circle_outline Add Author

Comment
Do you have any competing interests to declare? *

I/we agree to assign copyright to the Medical Journal of Australia and agree to the Conditions of publication *
I/we agree to the Terms of use of the Medical Journal of Australia *
Email me when people comment on this article

Online responses are no longer available. Please refer to our instructions for authors page for more information.