Profession of Medicine
An occupation characterized by rigorous standards, significant autonomy, and considerable prestige.
What is a profession?
The process by which a person becomes a member of a group or society and acquires values, attitudes, beliefs, behaviors, and a sense of social identity.
What is socialization?
An ability to work effectively with members of different cultures.
What is cultural competence?
*cultural humility also acceptable
Physical therapists and medical technologists are examples of these workers, whose role is to support the work of the physician.
What are allied health workers?
This jointly funded federal-state program is designed to make health care available to the very poor.
What is Medicaid?
Founded as a national society in 1847 to promote the science and art of medicine and the betterment of public health, this organization remains one of the most influential lobbying groups in the USA today.
What is the AMA (American Medical Association)?
A large configuration of programs and services that also includes a medical school.
What is an academic health center?
Historically the dominant approach, this principle was automatically prioritized by most physicians over patient self-determination — but over the last 50 years, autonomy has taken precedence.
What is beneficence?
This person is known as the founder of modern nursing.
Who is Florence Nightingale?
This program was created in 1997 with the objective of reducing the number of children without health insurance.
What is Children's Insurance Program (CHIP)?
This theory contends that patients have become increasingly well informed and assertive about controlling their own health over time, leading to a decrease in the professional dominance of physicians.
What is the deprofessionalization theory?
This term describes the attitude physicians are expected to maintain: caring about their patients while avoiding excessive emotional involvement or over-identification with them.
What is detached concern?
This Greek-derived term means 'self-rule' and refers to an individual's right to make their own decisions.
What is autonomy?
This profession has been ranked highest in Gallup Poll's annual rating of honesty and ethics for the past 20 years.
What is nursing?
This type of health insurance plan features lower premiums but requires a very high out-of-pocket threshold to be met before coverage begins.
What is a high deductible health plan?
This theory, offered by Donald Light, suggests that when the power of one side becomes too great, opposing forces are stimulated to restore balance.
What is the theory of countervailing power?
This term describes medical students' acknowledgement that medical science is incomplete, that they cannot master all available knowledge, and their ability to distinguish between the two.
What is tolerance for uncertainty?
For surgery or procedures with significant risk, patients are typically required to sign this.
What is an informed consent form?
These two factors drove the development of allied health worker positions: the complexity of new diagnostic and treatment methods requiring specialists, and a shortage of these doctors.
What are primary care physicians?
Health maintenance organizations, preferred provider organizations, and high deductible health plans are all types of this — the most significant cost containment mechanism in health care financing over the last 40 years.
What is managed care?
This theory explains the decreasing professional dominance of medicine by the increasing involvement and control of corporations.
What is the corporatization theory?
This 1910 study assessed 150 medical schools in the United States and Canada, leading to reformed admission criteria and curriculum; but while raising standards, it also resulted in the exclusion of women and African Americans from the physician workforce.
What is the Flexner Report?
A physician exhibits this when they override a patient's wishes and take action presumed to be in the patient's best interest but unwanted by the patient.
What is paternalism?
This type of nurse has completed additional nationally accredited training in midwifery, typically lasting 18 months to 2 years, and has passed a national certification exam.
What is a CNM (Certified Nurse-Midwife)?
Under the ACA, employers with at least this many employees are required to offer health insurance plan options to their workers.
What is 50 employees?