Teaching caring attitudes

Conscience Sensitive Approach to Ethics and Teaching Caring Attitudes

Medicine is a moral enterprise, and medical educators have a primary moral and professional obligation to students to teach, evaluate and nurture this aspect of the curriculum. We assume our students enter medical school as persons of conscience, and that our job as teachers, in addition to helping them master facts, critical and clinical thinking and skills, is to promote their development int...

Attitudes Towards Teaching and Research

RoboBeggar: Teaching Attitudes by Robotics

A human size interacting robot called RoboBeggar is a dedicated learning appliance capable of bankcard-based swift money transfers, providing information on relevant issues, giving advice on how to contribute to help needy people. RoboBeggar helps people to understand where and why resources are needed. Thanks to a bankcard reader it gives the facility to donate money in a quick and efficient w...

Attitudes of preclinical medical students towards caring for chronically ill and dying patients: does palliative care teaching make a difference?

INTRODUCTION Students entering medical school today will encounter an ageing population and a higher incidence of diseases affecting the elderly-for example, chronic respiratory and cardiac disease and malignancy. PURPOSE This study was carried out to determine the attitudes of preclinical medical students towards the care of patients for whom a cure is not possible. METHODS All students we...

Attitudes of Iranian nurses toward caring for dying patients.

OBJECTIVE To examine the attitudes of Iranian nurses toward caring for dying patients. METHODS Nurses' attitudes toward death and caring for dying patients were examined by using two types of questionnaires: the Death Attitude Profile-Revised (DAP-R) and Frommelt's Attitude towards Caring for Dying Patients (FATCOD), both with a demographic survey. RESULTS The results showed that most respo...