The 17th QMA’s convention will be held April 16-18, 2015.
The Québec Medical Association (QMA) invites you to share your opinion on the theme La profession médicale : vers un nouveau contrat social (The Medical Profession: Time for a New Social Contract), as its 2015 Convention, which will be held from April 16 to April 18 2015, in Montréal. This consultation is the first phase in a series of actions that the QMA will take, in order to encourage the members of the medical profession, the government representatives and the population to engage in an in-depth discussion of this fundamental issue, in a context of transforming our health care system.
The social responsibility of physicians is taking on increasing prominence in the debates surrounding the future of the medical profession. Physicians enjoy high social status and control the standards and skills that give access to the profession. In return, the other side of this social contract means that physicians have the responsibility to deliver good service for their patients and society in general.
Doctors Sylvia R. Cruess, endocrinologist and Professor of Medicine, and Richard L. Cruess, orthopaedic surgeon and Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at the Medical Education Centre of McGill University, both internationally renowned for their expertise in the field of medical professionalism, will launch the work of this convention during their opening conference entitled Professionalism and Medicine’s Social Contract with Society.
Many themes will be discussed during the conferences and panel discussions:
• The social contract: are physicians and the population on the same wavelength?
• Accessibility, always the accessibility…
• Physicians and the enlargement of the fields of professional practice
• Big data: to improve performance or to increase surveillance?
• Altruism and conflicts of interests
• Duties and responsibilities of the physician, a vision in transformation
• Self-regulations or regulations?
• Intergenerational gap in Medicine: myth or reality?
