의사의 사회적 역량이란 무엇인가?

Practicing medicine is a social activity. Because doctor-patient interaction requires respect, leadership, and interpersonalskills that extend beyond medical diagnosis and treatment, medical education must incorporate non-clinical competencies. While qualities such as lifelong learning skills, resource management, teamwork skills, and active involvementin leadership and bettering the healthcare system have received little attention in medical academia, these competencieshave proven vital for a physician in contemporary society. These non-clinical competencies are, in fact, thetraits or components of social competency. Social competency has been an area of interest, particularly with regard tothe development of children and adolescents, in the fields of education, psychology, and less commonly, economics. However, traditional Korean residency programs have not paid much attention to social competency due to their closedculture originating from the colonial period. Resident education is still heavily dependent on a patriarchal system basedon “family” values. Resident education is concentrated in medical knowledge and skills within specialty departmentsfunctioning as a family-like unit. Specialty training has a very narrow, constrained vision without incorporating mucheducation on the social dimension of medical practice. Nevertheless, developing a social competency scheme forresident education was initiated in 2008, when the Korean Medical Association celebrated the centennial of producinglicensed physicians. However, the scheme is still under development and not widely used. Korean medical educatorsmust, therefore, recognize the value of social competencies and include them as graduation outcomes of residencytraining to prepare doctors to meet the challenges of the future. KCI Citation Count: 0