The Royal National Academy of Medicine (RANM), through its San Nicolás Foundation, has awarded Professor José López Guzmán, expert in Humanities Pharmaceuticals at the University of Navarra, for his work 'Integrity in the healthcare professional environment'.

According to the RANM, these awards aim to "promote the programs of study and works that contribute to the improvement, enhancement, protection and dissemination of Medicine, Health and Health Care, and especially to their application to society in general". Hence, the institution recognizes Professor López Guzmán's work for being"a critical analytical study of bioethics and medical deontology".

Professional integrity and identity staff

"Integrity is presented as a requirement for achieving excellence, both staff and professional, and is considered a valuable quality of the person". This is one of the conclusions of the book 'Integrity in the healthcare professional environment', a study that analyzes the concept of integrity, associated with the work environment and identity staff, as core topic of good practice both in the institutional and healthcare environment as well as in the scientific and researcher.

Starting from a philosophical, legal, scientific and bioethical context, Professor López Guzmán analyzes integrity as a good, the integrity of the person and the whole person, integrity in a social context or the immutability of the whole person, and ends by applying this analysis to integrity in the professional healthcare field. Throughout the book, he illustrates with examples situations that challenge these health professionals who, on occasions, may be faced with laws or corporate and institutional norms contrary to their deontological criteria, such as euthanasia or the morning-after pill.

Other conclusions that the author presents in the book are: integrity staff financial aid to realize oneself as a person, to identify and assume values that direct one's behavior; professional integrity implies showing consistency between what one says, professes and promises, and what one does; health agents of integrity are capable of shaping the integrity of their own profession; it is necessary to work to create an environment that favors integrity, which requires Education and the example of all, including the institutions that represent us.