STUDENTS ATTITUDE TOWARDS MEDICAL ETHICS EDUCATION

  • Alexandrina Vodenitcharova Faculty of Public Health, Department of Health Policy and Management, Medical University of Sofia,
  • Nikoleta Leventi Faculty of Public Health, Department of HTA, Medical University of Sofia
  • Kristina Popova Faculty of Public Health, Department of Social Medicine, Medical University of Sofia
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12955/cbup.v7.1466

Abstract

Medical ethics (ME) and bioethics education are integrated in many medical schools, as a discipline, which aims to help future doctors to recognize ethical issues in healthcare and develop ethical decision-making skills. The main purpose of this paper was to explore students’ attitude towards medical ethics and bioethics, as a course of their education curriculum in the Medical University of Sofia in Bulgaria. The goal was to find out students expectations for the contribution of the acquired knowledge to reflect upon the ethical dimensions and human rights considerations of medicine, healthcare and science after the end of their ME course. A paper questionnaire was distributed to medical students with a letter indicating the purpose of the study. All the students were anonymous and voluntarily participated in the survey. Completed questionnaires were received from 344 medical students. According to the results, the majority (94%) of the participants are familiar with the principles of medical ethics and bioethics and supports (86%) the necessity of studying Medical ethics. Most of the students (87%) think that medical ethics education will help them in their future work and believe (86%) that this course will improve their professionalism, while their opinion (70%) is that medical ethics will lead to effectively co-working with other medical professionals.

Published
2019-09-30
Issue
Vol 7 (2019): CBU International Conference Proceedings 2019
Section
Medicine and Pharmacy
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