Review article
MEDICAL HODEGETICS - ALMOST FORGOTTEN ART AND SCIENCE OF UPBRINGING MEDICAL DOCTORS
Miro Jakovljevic
orcid.org/0000-0003-0420-357X
; Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital Centre Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Izet Masic
; Department for Science Editing, Academy of Medical Sciences of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Ljerka Ostojic
; Department of Anatomy, School of Medicine, University of Mostar, Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Milenko Bevanda
; Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Mostar, Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Edin Begic
; Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, Sarajevo School of Science and Technology, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Abstract
Introduction: Education in medicine faces a number of challenges and dilemmas and the onus is on Medical hodegetics, an important but almost forgotten discipline, to address them effectively. The task and final goal of education in medicine is to coach students into professionals, effective and ethical practitioners of medicine, giving them the best available knowledge, skills and attitudes and providing them with a professional identity so that they are able to think, speak, act and feel like medical doctors. During the life course human beings organize their experiences into a meaningful narrative that involves their personal, private, public and professional selves. The self can be defined as a distinct principle of identity, as a narrative construction and as an
experiential dimension.
Aim: The aim of this paper is to address the actuality and vitality of the hodegetic approach in medical education and professionalism.
Methods: By cross-sectional study authors of the paper searched on-line scientific data-bases and analyzed references about Medical hodegetics subject.
Results: Drawing on the literature on psychology of self, identity formation and personality styles as well as on own experience
in medical education, the authors stress the increasing importance of medical hodegetics, very useful, but almost completely forgotten discipline. Medical hodegetics which involves all evidence-based medicine, values-based medicine, narrative medicine and person-centered medicine can significantly improve the quality of medical education. The identity of any person in any moment reflects its three domains: individual identity, relational identity, and collective identity, all relevant to medical education. The concept of professional identity formation has recently emerged and attracted great attention in literature on medical education and professionalism. Hodegetics, as a discipline that trains it, seems to us that the essential part of life and what every person should follow.
Concluson: Medical hodegetics is an important pillar of the triad of medical deontology as well as it could be an important discipline in medical education and professional identity formation.
Keywords
medical hodegetics; deontology; professionalism; art and practice of learning organization; professional identity
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Publication date:
4.4.2019.
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