A Data-Generated Basis for Medical Ethics Education: Categorizing Issues Experienced by Students during Clinical Training

• Published in: Academic medicine Vol. 70; no. 11; p. 1035
• Main Author: Bissonette, Raymond
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01-11-1995
• Subjects: Ambulatory Care; Bioethical Issues; Classification; Clinical Competence; Clinical Experience; Clinical Medicine - education; Communication; Controversial Issues (Course Content); Defensive Medicine - education; Education, Medical; Ethical Instruction; Ethics; Ethics, Medical; Faculty, Medical; Higher Education; Humans; Interpersonal Relations; Interprofessional Relations; Intervention; Medical Education; Medical Ethics; Medical Students; Medicine; Moral Development; Morals; New York; Physician-Patient Relations; Professional Competence; Professional Education; Professional Misconduct; Professionalism; Social Values; State University of New York Buffalo; Student Attitudes; Students, Medical; Surveys; Therapeutics; Values; New York; Empirical Approach; Bioethics and Professional Ethics; SUNY-Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
• ISSN: 1040-2446
• DOI: 10.1097/00001888-199511000-00023

A survey of 249 students at the State University of New York at Buffalo identified medical ethics issues arising during clinical training in professional norms, limits of intervention, defensive shielding of professional colleagues, respect toward patients, communication, and student boundaries. Concerns differed by student year, supporting research on retardation of moral sensitivity during medical education. (Author/MSE)