OVERVIEW OF PURPOSE OF TRAINING TO BE A PHYSICIAN
I am (name) ______________________________________________.
I was born in (place) ____________________________________
on (date) _____________________________________.
I grew up in (place) _____________________________________.
I personally want to become a physician (true or false?) _.
After graduation from medical school, I intend to practice
my profession in (specify municipality/city/province) ____
__________________________________________________________.
OVERVIEW OF PURPOSE OF TRAINING TO BE A PHYSICIAN
Reynaldo O. Joson, M.D.
Medical student
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Physician-to-be |
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|--> Community, Families, Individuals
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Board-certified |
physician -|
Messages:
A physician will go to a community to practice his
profession.
A physician will serve a community.
Physician's primary concern: health needs or problems of the
community, family, and individuals
Physician's goals:
Healthy community |
Healthy families |- Socially and economically
Healthy individuals | productive
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OVERVIEW OF PURPOSE OF TRAINING TO BE A PHYSICIAN
Medical student
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Physician-to-be |
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|-----------------------> Community
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Board-certified |
physician -|
Messages -
Whether you are still a medical student or already a board-
certified physician, you will go back to a community during
and after training.
The community you will go back to may be a municipality, a
city, a province, a region, a country, or the world.
---> To practice profession in
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Medical student | |
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Physician-to-be | | |
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|-----------------------> Community
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Board-certified | | |
physician -| | |
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---> To be of service to
Message -
You go back to the community for two big reasons:
1. To practice your profession (to earn a living) and
2. To be of service to the community.
Whatever you do, in the end, it boils down to being of
service to the community.
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Medical student
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Physician-to-be | Serve ----------------> Health needs
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|-----------------------> Community
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Board-certified | Solve ----------------> Health problems
physician -|
Message -
As a medical student or as a board-certified physician, your
primary duty is to serve the health needs and to solve the
health problems of the community.
Medical student
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Physician-to-be | Serve ----------------> Health needs
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|-----------> Community, Families, Individuals
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Board-certified | Solve ----------------> Health problems
physician -|
Messages _
The health needs and problems of the community are not
limited to those of the community per se. They include
those of the families and individuals living within the
community.
Thus, as a medical student or as a board-certified
physician, you are expected to know how to serve the health
needs and how to solve the health problems of individuals,
families, and communities.
The health of each part is dependent on the health of the
other parts.
The health needs or problems of an individual may be
affected by the health needs or problems of the family or
the community.
Likewise, the health needs or problems of the family and the
community may be affected by the health needs or problems
of an individual.
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Medical student
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Physician-to-be |Serve health needs --> Healthy/Productive
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|--> | Community, Families, Individuals |
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Board-certified |Solve health problems --> Healthy/Productive
physician -|
Message -
Your goal in serving the health needs and solving the health
problems of community is to develop a healthy community
with healthy families and healthy individuals who can live
a socially and economically productive life on earth.
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THE PHYSICIAN
Reynaldo O. Joson, M.D.
*What is a physician?
A physician is
a human being with a medical profession
who deals with the health needs and health problems of
human beings
to make a living
to serve the health needs and to solve the health
problems of human beings.
*Does the physician deal with individual human beings or groups of
human beings?
The physician deals with individual human beings and groups
of human beings.
The physician is concerned with the health needs and
problems of individual human beings.
However, since the health of an individual human being may
be affected by the health of his family and the health of the
community he lives in, the physician will unavoidably deal also
with the health of families and the health of the community.
*What are the health needs of individuals, families, and
communities
They want to stay healthy. In other words, the health need
is health maintenance.
*What is health or when do you say an individual, a family, and a
community is healthy?
Health, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), is
the state of physical, mental, and social well-being and not the
mere absence of disease.
An individual is said to be healthy if he has no disease and
if he has a physical, mental, and social well being, i.e., he is
socially and economically productive.
A family is said to be healthy if majority of the members of
the family have no disease and that the family is functioning
properly as a whole in the society, i.e., socially and
economically productive.
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A community is said to be healthy if majority of the members
of the community have no disease and that the community is
functioning properly as a whole, i.e., socially and economically
productive.
*What are the health problems of individuals, families, and
communities?
The health problems are diseases, which prevent individuals,
families, and communities from being socially and economically
productive.
*What are diseases?
Diseases are conditions that can kill an individual,
families, and a community.
Diseases are conditions that can cripple individuals,
families, and communities so as to prevent them from being
socially and economically productive.
*Why does a person study to become a physician?
He studies to become a physician
1. To make a living out of the medical profession.
2. To serve the health needs and solve the health
problems of human beings (individuals, families, and
communities).
He must balance the two purposes.
He must have an outcome parameter for the two purposes.
To make a living
He must not overcharge.
He must not charge exorbitant fees, even to rich
people who can afford.
He charges the usual fees (with reference to societal
practice) which he thinks are reasonable (in
terms of time and labor) and which will promote
goodwill among his patients and their families.
He must be prepared to charge a nominal fee to those
who cannot afford his usual fee.
He must be prepared to give free services to those who
cannot afford to pay.
He must have a social conscience.
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To serve the health needs and to solve the health problems
He promotes health.
He prevents diseases.
He treats and promotes cure in persons with diseases.
He rehabilitates persons after treatment of their
diseases.
He develops healthy individuals, families, and
communities.
*How does one become a physician?
He undergoes training to become a physician.
He must fulfill the government requirements.
- M.D. degree from an approved medical school
- One year of internship
- Certification by the Professional Regulation
Commission after passing the Philippine Board of
Medicine examination
He must acquire the competencies expected of a physician.
To be able to serve the health needs and to be able to
solve the health problems of individuals, families,
and communities so as to make them healthy and
socially and economically productive.
Specifically,
To be able to solve the health problems of a community.
To be an effective, efficient, and humane physician.
To be self-directed physician in his continuing medical
education.
To be an effective and efficient administrator of a
health care unit.
To be able to conduct health researches.
To be able to conduct health education.
To be able to serve as role model in health promotion.
To be able to pass the Philippine Board of Medicine
examination.
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