Question: Answer True or False
1.Fundamental principles of healthcare professionalism include:
(a)Patient autonomy and economic profitability.
(b)Patient autonomy and social justice.
(c)Economic profitability and social justice.
(d)Social justice and patient welfare.
2.Professional commitment of medicine includes:
(a)Accepting care inequalities, honesty and professional competence.
(b)Asking leadership for fee waivers, improving care access and quality, and social justice.
(c)Commitment to scientific knowledge, managing conflict of interest and patient confidentiality.
(d)Empathy, professional governance and tolerating colleague harassment.
3.The primary goals of medicine include:
(a)Abortion, enhancement medication and medical education.
(b)Aesthetic medicine, assist in capital punishment and patient counselling.
(c)Care and cure of patients, disease prevention and promoting peaceful death.
(d)Euthanasia, health education and pain relief.
4.The legal framework for medical professionalism in Singapore includes:
(a)Complaints against medical practitioners are dealt with under the Medical Registration Act (MRA).
(b)The sole objective of the MRA is to ensure that registered medical practitioners are competent and fit to practise medicine at all times.
(c)The MRA provides professional accountability through the formation of the Inquiry Committee, Complaints Committee and Disciplinary Tribunal.
(d)A medical professional can be charged for misconduct, fraud and dishonesty, defect in character, or bringing disrepute to the profession.
5.Good professional conduct is an integral pillar of safe, effective and high-quality clinical care. The values of medical professionalism are:
(a)Altruism, compassion, integrity and veracity.
(b)Anxiety, bias, fallibility and vulnerability.
(c)Excellence, fidelity, humility and service.
(d)Clinical competence, defensive approach, economic profitability and ethical competence.