TY  - JOUR
T1  - The impact of medical school oaths and other professional codes of ethics: Results of a national physician survey
AU  - Antiel RM, Curlin FA, Hook C, Tilburt JC
Y1  - 2011/03/14
N1  - 10.1001/archinternmed.2011.47
JO  - Archives of Internal Medicine
SP  - 469
EP  - 471
VL  - 171
IS  - 5
N2  - 
Most US medical students participate in “white coat” ceremonies in which they recite an oath, often with reference to the Oath of Hippocrates. Reciting such oaths or endorsing shared ethical standards such as the American Medical Association (AMA) Code of Ethics can nurture professionalism by conveying a sense of gravity and belonging to something greater than oneself.1 Yet historic oaths can sound anachronistic to the modern ear, and the oaths sworn in most medical schools modify the original Hippocratic Oath by excluding significant portions and adding language deemed more fitting.2- 3 Revised oaths, while more relevant to contemporary medicine, may suffer from being arbitrary and self-serving.4- 5

SN  - 0003-9926
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archinternmed.2011.47
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinternmed.2011.47
ER  -