TY - JOUR
T1 - The utilization of Q methodology to explore the ranking of professionalism of plastic surgeons: Chiung-Hsuan Chiu
AU - Chiu, CH
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - BackgroundMedical professionalism is becoming a popular topic since the 1990s, while it can be defined as the social contract between physicians and general public. In last decades, plastic surgeons were criticized for their shift from an altruistic focus to commercial ones. From public best interests, is it appropriate to have more commerical-oriented plastic surgeons? What’s their perception of their obligation as physicians? To understand this problem, this study, therefore, was to identify the ranking of professionalism of plastic surgeons by using QMethods
AB - BackgroundMedical professionalism is becoming a popular topic since the 1990s, while it can be defined as the social contract between physicians and general public. In last decades, plastic surgeons were criticized for their shift from an altruistic focus to commercial ones. From public best interests, is it appropriate to have more commerical-oriented plastic surgeons? What’s their perception of their obligation as physicians? To understand this problem, this study, therefore, was to identify the ranking of professionalism of plastic surgeons by using QMethods
U2 - 10.1093/eurpub/ckx186.135
DO - 10.1093/eurpub/ckx186.135
M3 - Article
SN - 1101-1262
VL - 27
SP - 447
JO - European Journal of Public Health
JF - European Journal of Public Health
IS - suppl_3
ER -