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标题：The Body and Blood of Medical School: One Student's Perspective on Jesuit Education
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作者：Jennifer K. Walter
期刊名称：AMA Journal of Ethics
印刷版ISSN：2376-6980
出版年度：2007
卷号：9
期号：05
页码：353-355
出版社：American Medical Association
摘要：I was not specifically looking for a Catholic institution when I applied to medical school. But after interviewing at Georgetown and meeting the ambassador of admissions, I realized that many of the characteristics I valued in a medical education were championed by the Jesuits. They advocate care of the whole person, recognizing that people are far more than just organ systems and that their religious beliefs are central to their decision making, particularly during illness. The Jesuits acknowledge that the professional role of physicians entails special responsibilities not demanded by other jobs. Not only does this role affect the individual relationship between physician and patient, it also imposes on physicians a responsibility to care for society’s vulnerable and forgotten. As I come to the end of my medical training at Georgetown, I reflect on how these and other Catholic themes have been put into practice, both in the explicit curricula of the four years of training and in the informal, but probably more influential, interactions with physicians and residents in the classroom and at the bedside.