BACKGROUND Little is known about teaching medical ethics across cultural and linguistic boundaries. This study examined two successive cohorts of first year medical students in a six year undergraduate MBBS program. METHODS The objective was to investigate whether Arabic speaking students studying medicine in an Arabic country would be able to correctly identify some of the principles of West...

2 Over the past decade, many publications in the information systems (IS) field have focused attention on IS Fellowship Program. I am greatly indebted to Bob Hebert for his research assistance and to Allen Lee and the anonymous reviewers of MISQ Executive for their guidance and insights. ethical concerns. One of the first articles appeared in 1992 in CIO magazine under the title " Do the Right ...

Using English as a global communicating tool makes Taiwanese people have to speak in English in diverse international situations. However, consonants and vowels in English are not all effortless for them to articulate. This phonological reduction study explores concepts about phonological (articulating system) approximation. From Taiwanese folks’ perspectives, it analyzes phonological type, rat...

The hustle and bustle of the modern era, marked by an easy life, is relatively only able to provide physical pleasure, but unable spiritual happiness. phenomenon life that not balanced with this level happiness, causes a void. purpose study was determine meaning ways obtaining happiness according Syeikh Ibnu Atha’illah as-Sakandari, as well its relevance human in era. This research qualitative ...

BACKGROUND The recent proliferation of health care report cards, especially in cardiac care, has occurred in the absence of an ethical framework to guide in their development and implementation. An ethical framework is a consistent and comprehensive theoretical foundation in ethics, and is formed by integrating ethical theories, relevant literature, and other critical information (such as the v...

Many complex ethical issues arise in the day-to-day conduct of longitudinal studies of addiction treatment. These issues are rooted, in part, in the sustained and potentially ambiguous relationship between research staff and study participants, the frequently changing clinical and legal status of study participants, the assertive methods required to generate high follow-up rates, and the numero...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To explore ethical conflicts in oncology practice and the nature of healthcare contexts in which ethical conflicts can be averted or mitigated. RESEARCH APPROACH Ethnography. SETTING Medical centers and community hospitals with inpatient and outpatient oncology units in southern California and Minnesota. PARTICIPANTS 30 oncology nurses, 6 ethicists, 4 nurse administrato...

background: ethical values offer a framework for behavior assessment, and nursing values influence nurses’ goals, strategies,and actions. a literature review was adopted in order to determine and define ethical values for nurses. materials and methods: this literature review was conducted based on the centre for reviews and dissemination guidelines. the key words used to search relevant sources...

The paper presents the structure and function of an ethical micro world simulation and of a support system in ethical problem-solving and decision-making. The ethical micro world simulation models realistic scenarios with interacting independent stakeholders. Users of the simulation are triggered to make autonomous decisions in dilemmas arising in the interaction between stakeholders. The goals...

BACKGROUND Professional health care practice should be based on ethical decisions and actions. When there are competing ethical standards or principles, one must choose between two or more competing options. This study explores ethical dilemmas experienced by International Board Certified Lactation Consultants. METHODS The investigator interviewed seven International Board Certified Lactation...