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Professional Interpersonal Relationships involving Physicians - Croatian Perspective

Physicians’ professional interpersonal relationships single out as a special category of medical professionalism, namely medical ethics, and represent a crucial element of physicians’ everyday practice having a profound impact on all health care processes and the outcomes of those processes. While physicians usually adhere to universal values of globally defined norms of professionalism, they still can betray their implementation in everyday practice. These lapses in professionalism can have severe consequences, and according to scientific literature, they can be forestalled across the continuum of becoming and being physician, either by education or interventions. While this issue is perceived as important in Croatian public and academic community, it is still insufficiently explored. We will present our preliminary results that were collected throughout two pilot studies, one from the eyes of the public and one from physicians’ perspective, regarding professional interpersonal relationships among physicians in Republic of Croatia. We are also going to show the actual structure of medical education referring to medical professionalism in our country and, by advising the latest scientific literature, suggest possible new implementations.

professionalism; Croatia; interspersonal relationship among physicians

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