teaching professional values in medicine

In Teaching Professional Ethics

Is it appropriate for a professional ethics instructor to divulge her own views on the choice of an ethical theory to students, or is the unbiased discussion of theories preferable? Should the instructor “narrow the field” to one or two ethical theories or should a fuller range, or a diversity of ethical theories, be introduced? As an assistant professor charged with teaching professional ethic...

Valuing teaching and teaching values.

CORRESPONDENCE TO: Neil Pickering Bioethics Centre, Te Pokapu Matatika Koiora, Division of Health Sciences, PO Box 913, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand [email protected] A quick review of some relevant medical codes in New Zealand reveals that there is a strong belief that doctors have a duty to engage in passing on the knowledge and practice of medicine to the next generation of doctors. Fo...

The Relationship between Professional Ethics and Teaching Quality among Faculty Members of Medicine Sciences Aja University

Introduction: Nowadays, the professional ethics has been very much taken into consideration, so that most professions including teaching, for its particular demands, should have a professional ethics code. The current study aimed to investigate the predictive role of professional ethics in professorschr('39') teaching quality of Medical Sciences University; Army-Iran. Methods: The present study...

Professional values: diversity versus disintegration.

I was very excited by the special issue on spiri[Uality in occupational therapy (A]OT, March 1997). Being a Christian myself, I believe that the therapist's ability [Q connect with the client on a spiriruallevel is imporrant. Howard and Howard's arricle, "Occupation as Spiritual Acrivity," pointed out that occuparional therapy's goal of using purposeful acrivity [Q bring meaning [Q treatment co...

The Ethics of Medical Education - The Ethical and Professional Issues in Teaching and Learning Medicine.

Teaching Psychology in Medicine: The Context, Methodologies and Doctor's Professional Identity.

INTRODUCTION Teaching Psychology in medical curriculum has been the subject of numerous dissertations that focus on the relevance of this knowledge for doctors, at a general level. METHODS A non-systematic review of the relevant literature, particularly from the last decade, as well as national and international recommendations addressing the need for integration of behavioural and social sci...