While our society has benefited greatly from the advances in biomedical science and technology, there has been a distinct downside for our patients. People are treated with dignity and respect.
Full communication is established with patients and families.
Enhanced control and independence are sought for patients and their family members. Patients and families collaborate not only in care delivery, but also in policy and program development and professional education. Control, rather than collaboration, and rigidity, rather than flexibility, all too often characterize health care delivery in our centers. MSOP aims to identify the attributes that every U.S. medical school graduate should possess, and to identify the elements in the medical school curriculum that best teach those attributes. That research affirms that, whether we like it or not, patients take our scientific know-how for granted.