Let us consider "human competency" primarily (1) in terms of competency to make a decision in one's clinical care or (2) in terms of one allowing oneself to participate in a clinical research triral involving a newly developed drug or newly developed medical device for humans.

Let us consider "human competency" primarily (1) in terms of competency to make a decision in one's clinical care or (2) in terms of one allowing oneself to participate in a clinical research triral involving a newly developed drug or newly developed medical device for humans.

Medical education has witnessed a steady increase in efforts to train physicians to provide high-quality, culturally competent care.

But psychiatrists in both care and research still lack a straight-forward means of determining who should be considered as capable vs. non-capable as a patient in giving his or her consent to a medical intervention in care or research on humans. Physician training is accelerating but are the basic communication issues for an informed consent keeping up in your country?

But Dennis is psychiatry actually true? My continued research spreads doubt onto the Serotonin Hypothesis (although widely regarded as scientific 'truths' they are only hypothesis). Experiments on mice and extrapolating from evidence on their physical reactions to psychic reactions in mice and human beings seems worthy of satire.

The disease-centered model of medical decision-making is highly effectice and efficient, but it is technical approach, i.e. professional industrialization of medical treatments. To give this tech-know-logical foundation an enhanced humanitarian dimension, a person-centered approach can advance human competency for physicians. Interesting publication, in this respect, is: The Compassionate Connection from David Rakel, where the healing power of empathy is applied.

I agree with Stephen I.Ternyik