Medical Education and Social Responsibility

Öz

Many health problems arise in mutual interaction of social, environmental, economic and political contexts. Therefore, responses to health problems are required to be formed through both individual and collective approaches of stakeholders. Medical schools are accountable for the development of social responsibility to society, as well as the health system. Today, medical schools are expected to become socially accountable institutions as fulfilling their obligation to shape their educational, research and service facilities in direction of guiding the primary health problems of their community, region and country and contributing to the elimination of inequalities in the health care of the society. Medical faculties should develop their medical education programs to produce graduates with a sense of social responsibility and awareness, ability to create a positive change in the lives of their patients, in the society they serve, in terms of health policy and health systems. For this purpose, they should integrate educational approaches such as service learning, community-based medicine and distributed medical education into their education programs and monitor and evaluate their effects. Thus, medical schools can fulfil their institutional social responsibilities by providing their students with competencies related to social responsibility as well as by enabling the implementation of studies/projects that contribute to public health.

Anahtar Kelimeler

• Social responsibility
• Medical education
• Service learning
• Community-based medicine
• Distributed medical education

Tıp eğitimi ve sosyal sorumluluk

Öz

Birçok sağlık sorunu, sosyal, çevresel, ekonomik ve politik ortamların/koşulların birbiriyle iç içe geçmiş bağlamlarında ortaya çıkar. Bu da, sağlık sorunlarına hem bireysel hem de ilgili tarafların koordinasyonu ve işbirliği ile yanıtlar verilmesini gerektirir. Topluma karşı sosyal sorumluluğun geliştirilmesinde sağlık sistemi yanı sıra, tıp fakültelerine de görev düşmektedir. Günümüzde tıp fakültelerinden eğitim, araştırma ve hizmet uygulamalarını hizmet sundukları topluluk, bölge ve/veya ülkenin öncelikli sağlık sorunları doğrultusunda yönlendirme yükümlülüğünü yerine getirerek sosyal güvenilir tıp fakülteleri olmaları ve toplumdaki sağlık eşitsizliklerini gidermeye katkı sağlamaları beklenmektedir. Tıp fakülteleri sosyal sorumluluk duygusu ve bilinci gelişmiş, hastalarının yaşamlarında, hizmet sundukları toplumda, sağlık politikası ve sağlık sistemleri düzeyinde olumlu bir değişim yaratabilecek mezunlar verecek biçimde tıp eğitimi programlarını geliştirmelidir. Bu amaçla, hizmet sunumuyla öğrenme, topluma dayalı tıp, dağıtılmış tıp eğitimi gibi eğitimsel yaklaşımları eğitim programlarına entegre etmeli, etkisini izlemeli ve değerlendirmelidir. Böylece, tıp fakülteleri hem öğrencilerine sosyal sorumlulukla ilgili yeterlikleri kazandırarak hem de toplum sağlığına katkı sağlayan çalışmalar/ projelerin uygulanmasına olanak sağlayarak kendi kurumsal sosyal sorumluluklarını yerine getirebilirler.

Anahtar Kelimeler

• sosyal sorumluluk
• tıp eğitimi
• hizmet sunumuyla öğrenme
• topluma dayalı tıp

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