Journal article
Through students' eyes: ethical and professional issues identified by third-year medical students during clerkships
Journal of medical ethics, Vol.38(2), pp.130-132
02/2012
DOI: 10.1136/medethics-2011-100033
PMID: 21947811
Abstract
BackroundEducation in ethics and professionalism should reflect the realities medical students encounter in the hospital and clinic.MethodWe 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.ResultsA 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%).ConclusionsStudents 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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- Title: Subtitle
- Through students' eyes: ethical and professional issues identified by third-year medical students during clerkships
- Creators
- Lauris C Kaldjian - Department of Internal Medicine, The University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa, USAMarcy E Rosenbaum - Office of Consultation and Research in Medical Education, The University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa, USALaura A Shinkunas - Program in Bioethics and Humanities, The University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa, USAJerold C Woodhead - Department of Pediatrics, The University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa, USALisa M Antes - Department of Internal Medicine, The University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa, USAJane A Rowat - Department of Internal Medicine, The University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa, USAValerie L Forman-Hoffman - Research Triangle Institute, International, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of medical ethics, Vol.38(2), pp.130-132
- DOI
- 10.1136/medethics-2011-100033
- PMID
- 21947811
- ISSN
- 0306-6800
- eISSN
- 1473-4257
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 02/2012
- Academic Unit
- Medical Ethics; Stead Family Department of Pediatrics; Epidemiology; Family and Community Medicine; Nephrology; Office of Consultation and Research in Medical Education; General Internal Medicine; Internal Medicine
- Record Identifier
- 9984025272902771
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