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  • Medical Education
  • Philosophy of Medicine
  • Neuroscience

Background:

  • Medical training excels at knowledge transfer but struggles to cultivate virtues like empathy and professionalism.
  • Plato's arguments in the Meno question the teachability of virtue, posing a challenge for medical educators.
  • Growing recognition of the importance of physician professionalism, compassion, and empathy for quality patient care.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the teachability of virtue in the context of medical education.
  • To analyze philosophical perspectives on virtue and integrate modern neuroscience.
  • To explore practical frameworks, like Noddings' Ethic of Care, for fostering virtue in trainees.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of Plato's dialogues (Meno, Protagoras) regarding the nature of virtue.
  • Application of modern neuroscience principles to empirically examine virtue acquisition.
  • Exploration of Noddings' Ethic of Care as a pedagogical model.

Main Results:

  • Plato's analyses on virtue present contradictions, suggesting complexity in its transmission.
  • Neuroscience offers empirical insights into the mechanisms underlying the development of virtuous qualities.
  • Noddings' Ethic of Care provides a viable framework for cultivating virtue in medical trainees.

Conclusions:

  • Virtue is teachable in medical education, contrary to some philosophical views.
  • Caring relationships are central to fostering empathy and professionalism in physicians.
  • Successful implementation of Noddings' Ethic of Care in Israeli medical education demonstrates practical application.