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Reconnaître les efforts des médecins du monde entier

Conférencier: Dr Dilip Mathai

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Description

National’s Doctors Day is observed on 1st July to acknowledge the contribution of doctors' service to mankind. Today we are here to celebrate and talk about the challenges, their contribution and recent advancements in healthcare.

Résumé

  • The speaker's dream as a doctor is to possess strong clinical skills and knowledge, ensuring patient safety and satisfaction. This dream involves providing care with a professional attitude, compassion, tolerance, and sensitivity. The speaker highlights the need for ongoing training and continuous improvement in both hospital and clinical settings.
  • The speaker reflects on a 50-year journey, from medical student to administrative dean, detailing both failures and successes to guide future physicians. The importance of developing a niche and contributing to training, whether in academics, patient care, or research is highlighted. Balancing clinical care, teaching, publishing, and community service is presented as a challenging yet rewarding endeavor.
  • The talk focuses on the challenges of communicable and non-communicable diseases in India, emphasizing the importance of quality of life. The goal is to help individuals live long, fulfilling lives while addressing common health disorders.
  • Serving a large population requires a broad understanding of various symptoms and treatment options across government, private, and traditional medicine sectors. The speaker emphasizes the importance of building clinical skills and knowledge to better treat patients, regardless of the chosen sector.
  • The speaker discusses the evolving medical education landscape, including the National Education Policy 2020, the National Medical Commission, and the National Board of Examinations. The shift towards competency-based medical education and the large number of medical colleges and seats in India are noted.
  • Medical education is defined as the methodical creation of thinking habits. The curriculum's learning outcomes, including safety, effectiveness, competence, and professional values, are crucial. The significant amount of theoretical and practical training required, along with the importance of basic sciences, is emphasized.
  • The speaker emphasizes the importance of kindness, tenderness, sympathy, and empathy, which cannot be learned from textbooks, but come from within. The speaker also highlights the importance of teaching medical ethics, history of medicine, literature, visual arts, anthropology and economics.
  • The lecture discussed the need for skill labs, simulation labs and the need for active evaluation systems. Active evaluation systems is part of the new curriculum or competency-based medical education curriculum.
  • Post-graduation and super-specialization are presented as aspirations for medical graduates, but the limited number of available positions is acknowledged. The demand for specialized skills in managing complex conditions and the need for super-specialists are discussed.
  • The distinction between physicians and specialists is explored, highlighting the unique knowledge and skills each possesses. The speaker uses examples of radiologists, nephrologists, neurologists, gastroenterologists, rheumatologists, hematologists, and infectious disease specialists to illustrate these differences.
  • The importance of community-based approaches and point-of-care testing is emphasized. Research and publication are identified as crucial for adding new knowledge, although these skills are not always adequately taught in medical school. The lecture discussed the process of writing a grant, abstract and editor review.
  • For those choosing to practice medicine without a post-graduate degree, staying updated on knowledge, evidence-based guidelines, and clinical decision support systems is essential. The speaker encourages continuous learning and investment in knowledge, regardless of the chosen career path.
  • The speaker discusses the importance of fulfilling personal ambitions and aspirations, acknowledging the powerful emotional motivator of money while cautioning against its sole pursuit. The talk stresses the need for doctors to define their happiness factors, encompassing psychological well-being, education, living standards, and time management.
  • The lecture concluded with the motivating force of achievement, esteem, and self-actualization. The talk emphasized the importance of finding fulfillment and a stable brand image. Ultimately, the speaker encourages doctors to "do their best" and presented the hope for the future.

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