Abstract

A good healthcare practice involves more than the mere possession of knowledge and practical skills. The aims of training for good healthcare practice are best articulated by the General Medical Council (UK) (see General Medical Council website: Good Medical Practice) and includes attributes of professionalism and bioethics and communications and maintaining trust in patients. The essential elements of good medical practice, as outcomes in medical education, have recently been adopted by the Hong Kong Medical Council ("The Hong Kong Doctor" by Hong Kong Medical Council, 2017).

While aspects of these are already present in the current curricula of Medicine, Nursing and Pharmacy, there is a need to enhance those components with the following in mind:

1. Inter-professional training in those aspects across the three disciplines of Medicine, Nursing and Pharmacy, who are close partners in health care delivery;
2. Identity development of a healthcare professional in an age of globalized diseases and health care;
3. Bioethics and justice in health care, local and global; and
4. Research in health care - bioethics and professionalism.