Being a professional and providing service to patients, the public, the profession and each other today requires an evolution in the thought processes and actions that were deemed appropriate not only 100 but also as little as 10 years ago. Requirements for loyalty, involvement, dedication, self-sacrifice, compassion, diversity and inclusion place demands that many of the traditionally oaths taken by professionals did not address. Or did they? Is the professional world that much different, or are we just catching up to what it demanded all along?

Learning Objectives

• Examine the role, evolution, adoption and application of professional “oaths” or pledges of commitment and codes of ethics in the practice of the medical profession today.
• Develop an individual concept of what the components, requirements, obligations and benefits of being a medical professional are in today’s society and how they separate the practice of medicine as a profession from being perceived as a highly-skilled trade or job.
• Identify the role of the doctor-patient relationship, the critical position it occupies and how to address the challenges presented to that relationship by business, administrative, legislative, regulatory or professional challenges.

Presenter
Ronnie Martin, DO, FACOFP dist.

Disclosure Information
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All individuals in control of the content of this activity have no relationships with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

Accreditation and Credit Statements
The American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians (ACOFP) is accredited by the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) to provide osteopathic continuing medical education for physicians.

ACOFP designates this program for a maximum number of 0.75 AOA Category 1-A credits and will report CME with the extent of the physician’s participation in this activity.

Disclaimer
This program is sponsored by ACOFP for educational purposes only. The material presented is not intended to represent the sole or best medical interventions for the discussed diagnoses, but rather is intended to present the opinions of the authors or presenters that may be helpful to other practitioners. Attendees participating in this medical education program do so with the full knowledge that they waive any claim they may have against ACOFP for reliance on any information presented during these educational activities.

Questions
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