Publications by authors named "Ana Maria Rancich"

The teacher-student relationship in medicine is affected by incidents performed by teachers and perceived by students as morally incorrect. The objectives were to analyze these incidents perceived by third year medical students in 2009 and 2015, according to gender, position, career year, and instance, and to compare categories and motives. This is quantitative-qualitative research, based on a survey with closed and open items: to narrate incidents and motives.

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Introduction: The principles of justice, beneficence, and nonmaleficence are prescriptions of the Hippocratic Oath. To fulfill them, physicians are obligated morally to lifelong learning; yet, there is little evidence that the relationship of beneficence to lifelong learning or to continuing medical education (CME) is expressed in medical oaths.

Methods: We analyzed 48 medical oaths written from the first century Ce through the present day, searching for a commitment to lifelong learning and for specification of a relationship to the principle of beneficence.

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There is a revival at present in the use of the medical oath. A study of the text is necessary from the first year of study in medical school. The aim of this work was to know how medical students rank the commitments of the Geneva Declaration.

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