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Through students' eyes: ethical and professional issues identified by third-year medical students during clerkships.
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PMID:  21947811     Owner:  NLM     Status:  Publisher    
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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.
Authors:
Lauris C Kaldjian; Marcy E Rosenbaum; Laura A Shinkunas; Jerold C Woodhead; Lisa M Antes; Jane A Rowat; Valerie L Forman-Hoffman
Publication Detail:
Type:  JOURNAL ARTICLE     Date:  2011-9-24
Journal Detail:
Title:  Journal of medical ethics     Volume:  -     ISSN:  1473-4257     ISO Abbreviation:  -     Publication Date:  2011 Sep 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2011-9-27     Completed Date:  -     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  7513619     Medline TA:  J Med Ethics     Country:  -    
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Languages:  ENG     Pagination:  -     Citation Subset:  -    
Affiliation:
Program in Bioethics and Humanities, The University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa, USA.
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