Journal article
Further Exploration of the Relationship Between Medical Education and Moral Development
Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics, Vol.5(3), pp.444-449
1996
DOI: 10.1017/S0963180100007271
PMID: 8862833
Abstract
In the wake of a pilot study that indicated that the experience of medical education appears to Inhibit moral development In medical students, increased attention needs to be given to the structure of medical education and the Influence it has on medical students. Interest in ethics and moral reasoning has become widespread in many aspects of professional and public life. Society has exhibited great interest in the ethical issues confronting physicians today. Considerable effort has been undertaken to train medical students, interns, and residents In how to reason through medical-ethical dilemmas. Media attention has focused on Issues such as abortion, euthanasia, care of severely handicapped infants, organ transplantation, and so forth, producing heated debates in both the professional and lay literature over the morality of the various positions. The curriculum of medical education has paralleled and reflected this general Interest in medical ethics. Most medical schools now offer, and frequently require, course work in ethics. However, further research Is needed to better characterize and understand the relationship of medical education to moral development.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Further Exploration of the Relationship Between Medical Education and Moral Development
- Creators
- Donnie J. Self - Texas A&M UniversityDeWitt C. Baldwin - American Medical AssociationFredric D. Wolinsky - Indiana University
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics, Vol.5(3), pp.444-449
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- DOI
- 10.1017/S0963180100007271
- PMID
- 8862833
- ISSN
- 0963-1801
- eISSN
- 1469-2147
- Number of pages
- 6
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 1996
- Academic Unit
- Health Management and Policy
- Record Identifier
- 9984364437702771
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