The Cyprus Medical Association Directives
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Dr Petros Agathangelou President of the Cyprus Medical Association Telephone:22316874, 22316812 / Fax: 22316937 [email protected] Fundamental Traits of Ethical and Capable Medical Doctors: The Cyprus Medical Association Directives Cyprus Medical Association
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Transcript of The Cyprus Medical Association Directives
Dr Petros AgathangelouPresident of theCyprus Medical Association
Telephone:22316874, 22316812 / Fax: 22316937
Fundamental Traits of Ethical and Capable Medical Doctors: The Cyprus Medical Association Directives
Cyprus Medical Association
The Cyprus Medical Association… was established in 1967.
represents all practicing physicians in Cyprus.
At present, the Cyprus Medical Association has approximately 3100.
The main aim is to secure comprehensive and complete health care services to the patients of our island.
Ethics are not optional in medicine
• They are an essential and vital part of health care.
• A common ethical code is potentially valuable.
• According to the state law the Cyprus Medical Association has an Ethical code that channels the physicians on how they could exercise their profession for the wellbeing of
their patients.
Ethics are not optional in medicine
• CyMA’s code of Deontology describes the ethical environment for the delivery of health care and reflects its character and general approach.
• The ethical code tries to make subjective aspects of care more objective or separate value from practical situations.
• It is in the nature of the work of professions that will engage individual responsibility for ethical practice.
Ethics are not optional in medicine
• Ethical codes can give shape and structure to our moral environment and summarise our ethical position while leaving ethical responsibility with the individual practitioner.
• But what it cannot do is to provide the certain answers for the many ethical problems encountered in the course of medical practice
Ethics are not optional in medicine
• The Hippocratic Oath is perhaps the best known code of this kind, and is still administered in many medical schools worldwide.
• Medical Schools have an important role in order to enhance the knowledge of the medical students in regards to the fundamental values of the medical profession, before they start their career.
Ethics are not optional in medicine
• On the other hand the Medical Ethical Code is not something static. It has to develop through time and incorporate new concerns that are rising through the development of the Medical
profession.
Continuous Medical Development
• Professional development is a prerequisite element for the progress and improvement of any professional that wants to become and remain at the top of his profession.
• The technological developments but also the demand from a physician to acquire other administrative and/ or professional skills, creates the need for continuous medical development through specialized interdisciplinary educational and academic courses.
Continuous Medical Development
• The changes and the developments needed to incorporate, in order for a physician or for clinical units to remain up to date and improve their productivity, are various and multi - sectoral.
• Thus, the professionals in the healthcare sector have the need to follow and acquire new knowledge and skills in order to implement modern methods and policies compatible with the modern needs of their patients.
Continuous Medical Development
• Bridges must be built and models must be integrated to be truly effective. Therefore, through time, new interdisciplinary courses were developed, focusing in the healthcare clinical management.
Continuous Medical Development
Those advance interdisciplinary courses are trying to join together different fields of studies in order to address the specialized needs of the healthcare sector.
Those courses have provided essential information, standards, criteria, and policies that define what it means to be a modern and efficient healthcare provider.
Continuous Medical Development
Furthermore, the healthcare providers, through the knowledge that they will acquire can utilize practical strategies in order to enhance changes as an addition to their activities/educational interventions.
The providers can also build bridges with other stakeholders through collaboration and cooperation, and participate within an institutional or system framework for quality improvement.
Continuous Medical Development
• The interdisciplinary management courses offers a new way to understand organizational dynamics
• Provides insights on how we can provide high quality care, by suggesting new targets for improvement.
• New management practices can serve as tools for altering and improving the efficiency and effectiveness of an organization by increasing the rate of information flow, change the nature of interconnections, and provide cognitive diversity.
• New management practices and self-organization skills are directly related to better outcomes.
Continuous Medical Development
• As the President of the Cyprus Medical Association, but also as a physician, I believe that we have an obligation towards our patients to constantly seek for further knowledge, skills and abilities in order to provide safe and effective patient care within the scope of our professional medical practice. Activities like this one enhance the knowledge and the status of physicians working in Cyprus.
Dr Petros AgathangelouPresident of theCyprus Medical Association
Telephone: 22316874, 22316812 / Fax: 22316937
Cyprus Medical Association
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Fundamental Traits of Ethical and Capable Medical Doctors: The Cyprus Medical Association Directives
