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The Effective Practice Of Medicine

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The effective practice of medicine makes great demands on the physician. After reviewing the highly esteemed mission of Georgetown University School of Medicine, seventeen objectives, I considered to be trained by this institution because there are several objectives that I found them in a close relationship with my own ethical values and goals towards the medical profession. These are including an understanding of the psychological, cultural, and spiritual dimensions of human health and the ability to communicate effectively with patients. I believe that these can promote the complete development of a medical student, including academic, spiritual, and social awareness.
As I read the University website, I understand that Georgetown 's philosophy is centered in "Cura Personalis", which care for the psychological, spiritual, social as well as physical well being of the person so that they consider patients far more than just organ systems. I found this topic extremely important while I was an undergrad student of University of Tehran and I took some extra classes of Iranian Traditional Medicine. Iranian Traditional Medicine dates back more than 3000 years in Iran. The Persian traditional medicine views different aspects of patients while trying to treat the illness, such as physiology, psychology, and sociology and it also views man as one entity so that a disease shows that the whole body is imbalanced in any ways. Avicenna, one of the famous physicians in this field,

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