Curriculum development of medical professionalism in undergraduate medical education at Sapporo Medical University / 医学教育

ABSTRACT

1) Since the 2006 academic year, we have developed a 13-hour course in professionalism for fifth-year medical students at Sapporo Medical University.<br>2) The course included lectures and small-group discussions on the concept of medical professionalism, the definition of medical professionalism, clinical ethics, legal understanding, and the crisis of community medicine. At the end of the course, the students created their own student physician charter and recited it at the student physician charter ceremony.<br>3) Seventy-four percent of students evaluated the course positively, 18% pointed out positive and negative aspects of the course, and 8% evaluated the course negatively.