Newly Trained Physicians Care More For Patients as People
By: Jay Alvarez
Submitted: 2010-07-05 00:37:43 | Word Count: 773
Visionary young individuals, both male and female, have for many, many years been drawn to careers in medicine. But in recent years, medical schools around the country have seen an emergence of a new breed of doctors who are driven by the rewards of medical service for the good of the public, rather than financial compensation.
Medical schools, pharmaceutical companies and medical insurance companies still offer large salaries to qualified individuals but many of today's graduates will turn down these jobs for lower paying positions. He, instead, decided to continue working for an organization that he established while in medical school, and earns a salary of $12,000 annually. A commitment to the advancement of the level of medical care being provided in the United States is what drives this doctor, as well as the others of this new breed.
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This doctor indicates that he will not be a traditional doctor, but will offer good treatment to everyone. The association this doctor started was designed to research what certain locations require in terms of medicine, dental care, education, and the law. He believes that one cannot consider health care issues by themselves, that you must study the overall needs of the entire community. People who are seeking to make changes within our medical system find that it can pose quite a challenge.
Clearly, the health care system in this country is in bad shape. Still requiring encouragement, the medical schools are attempting to make changes and focus more on an outreach. It is up to the students enrolled in medical school to provide this motivation, and thanks to their prodding, courses devoted to community medicine have been added to the curriculum of the majority of U.S. medical schools. The majority of the medical students are now aware of these problems and want to work towards fixing them.
There has been a swell of increased social awareness, passion for medicine, concern for unfairness, and compassion among medical students, according to the dean of a top U.S. medical school. Students are exhibiting a new level of drive and dedication to service that was often missing in traditional medical practices where the motivation was financial. The dean notes that the time and effort put in to attaining their objective by the medical students of today is much greater than students previously. They want to live differently than their predecessors, and their goals and beliefs reflect that attitude. The historic trap that is the direction of those who have preceded them is what these young people want to avoid.
Prior generations of doctors were motivated by a desire for social success. They enjoyed being a part of the social elite. They wanted to own more things. They lived very structured lives that offered them safety, luxury, and a feeling of accomplishment. Present day students do not see eye to eye with their former generation's counterparts.
The prevailing mind set is that the deliver of medical care at all societal levels be determined by need instead of the financial resources of the patients. One associate professor who is also leading efforts to reform medical schools' direction and curricula decries the country's willingness to spend billions on medical care, when medical services and the people being treated aren't likely to be that much better off in the future. Instead, people may end up in worse condition if changes are not implemented soon.
A certain association has been established mainly for the goal of steering med students to go into medical fields that target public health, environmental health, and preventive medicine. This association subsidizes medical endeavors that are pushed by the community all across America. Their goal is to create a more comprehensive medical school curricula that includes training on community health issues via the use of community outreach projects.
One student, who worked as the organization's program director, reported that many of the budding doctors to be who have worked on the group's projects expressed interest in returning to that community to practice medicine. Reaching out to the communities that they are serving, you will find the med schools and hospitals wanting to recruit minority men and women to train for medical careers, in addition to the setting up of clinic and other community projects.
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