Medical Professionalism and culturally sensitive issues: Thinking ahead for the future medical graduates

Abstract

Over the past decade much of the attention has been addressed towards medical professionalism. However, the main dilemma is that both the Pakistani teachers and the students are too occupied in covering the cognitive knowledge that they are unable to spare sometime to practice the necessary skills, behavior and attitude. In order to understand how culture affects professionalism, one must first have a clear understanding of Pakistani culture. According to our best educated guess, we have suggested a few of the teaching methods which can assist in teaching culturally sensitive issues. Despite our suggestions, one cannot ignore the limitations in terms of constantly changing culture, difficulty in introducing unfamiliar teaching strategies and the copious amounts of time.