A theoretical framework for human and veterinary medical ethics education

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• 作者：Manuel Magalhães-Sant’Ana
• 关键词：Ethical skills ; Ethics education ; Medical ethics ; Moral virtues ; Professional rules ; One Health ; Veterinary ethics
• 刊名：Advances in Health Sciences Education
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：December 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：21
• 期：5
• 页码：1123-1136
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• 刊物类别：Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
• 刊物主题：Medical Education;
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1573-1677
• 卷排序：21

文摘

In their practice, physicians and veterinarians need to resort to an array of ethical competences. As a teaching topic, however, there is no accepted gold standard for human medical ethics, and veterinary medical ethics is not yet well established. This paper provides a reflection on the underlying aims of human and veterinary medical ethics education. Drawing from published literature on ethics education in the health professions a theoretical framework common to the teaching of human and veterinary medical ethics is proposed, based on three concepts: professional rules, moral virtues and ethical skills. The rules approach relies on the transmission of professional and social values by means of regulatory documents and depends intimately on the knowledge that students have of those documents. The virtues approach involves the inculcation of moral values and virtues that will stimulate students to develop desirable behaviours. The main focus of this approach to ethics is to develop students’ attitudinal competences. Finally, the skills approach is focused on equipping the students with the necessary moral reasoning abilities to recognise and respect the plurality of ethical views that make part of contemporary society. This framework can inform future curriculum development in human and veterinary medical ethics as well as in other health care professions.