New professionalism in the field of health

by, Dr. Shefqet Deliallisi

Abstract

One hundred years ago, the application of the “Flexner” report introduced modern science to the foundations of the medical curriculum, created the academic model of doctors› education, created the conditions for the academic medical centers and decided to put scientific research in function to improve patient care and clinical training. This model, which made a valuable contribution to health in the XXth century, is unable to prepare skilled health professionals for the challenges of the XXIst century. This due to the fact that we already live in a very different context, even in a very fast and uninterrupted change. We live in the conditions of a rapid demographic and epidemiological transition. We live in the time of the explosion of the flow of knowledge, technology, information and ease of access to it. We live in the time of the complexity and unstoppable growing cost of the health system. We live in times when other demands on health workers are being set. (2,3) When they are already facing chronic illnesses, different social states, with more knowledge, proactive and with other demands for their health (4,5,6)