Through students' eyes: ethical and professional issues identified by third-year medical students during clerkships.
J Med Ethics
; 38(2): 130-2, 2012 Feb.
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| ID: mdl-21947811
ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
Education in ethics and professionalism should reflect the realities medical students encounter in the hospital and clinic.METHOD:
We performed content analyses on Case Observation and Assessments (COAs) written by third-year medical students about ethical and professional issues encountered during their internal medicine and paediatrics clinical clerkships.RESULTS:
A cohort of 141 third-year medical students wrote 272 COAs. Content analyses identified 35 subcategories of ethical and professional issues within 7 major domains decisions regarding treatment (31.4%), communication (21.4%), professional duties (18.4%), justice (9.8%), student-specific issues (5.4%), quality of care (3.8%), and miscellaneous (9.8%).CONCLUSIONS:
Students encountered a wide variety of ethical and professional issues that can be used to guide pre-clinical and clinical education. Comparison of our findings with results from similar studies suggests that the wording of an assignment (specifying "ethical" issues, "professional" issues, or both) may influence the kinds of issues students identify in their experience-based clinical narratives.
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Colección:
01-internacional
Banco de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Competencia Profesional
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Prácticas Clínicas
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Ética Médica
Tipo de estudio:
Etiology_studies
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Incidence_studies
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Observational_studies
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Prognostic_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Límite:
Humans
Idioma:
En
Revista:
J Med Ethics
Año:
2012
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Estados Unidos