to understand what continuum of care means and how this is provided in a hospital
to study the process of residency training of doctors as fulfilling the purpose of both service and education
to appreciate the rigors of this system of residency training and their impact upon doctors
to explore how this system could be made to yield the best results
to understand the legal and ethical aspects of medical and health care practice
to study the importance of developing a culture of ethics and professionalism
to address the burning moral and practical issues of dealing with HIV and similar epidemics
to understand the nature and implications of medical negligence and malpractice litigation
to outline deficiencies in the optimum conduct of a medical professional
Doctors worldwide are among the most highly privileged members of society. In the USA, there are about a million employment opportunities for physicians and surgeons, extrapolating from the figures in 2012 of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which projected a rapid growth rate in this sector in that particular year (Bureau of Labor Statistics, n.d.). Doctors on an average get paid about 200,000 dollars in a year- the highest in the entire health care sector. They also spend easily more than a decade-sometimes two- in training to be exemplary professionals, but technical skills aside doctors are often found wanting in professionalism- that subtle quality of individual character that determines the quality of the entire health care services of a country or region.