Bioethics teaching in graduate programs in the field of medicine III

Abstract

The objective of this article is to examine how ethics/bioethics teaching is included in the curricula of stricto sensu graduate programs in the field of medicine III, according to the classification of the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel, in the North and Northeast regions of Brazil. This is a documentary, descriptive and exploratory study, of a qualitative and quantitative nature. The Sucupira Platform was used to search for the following information about the programs: state, institution, name of the program, category (academic/professional), score, compulsoriness and name of the course, workload and website of the program. We found nine programs in the field of medicine III, mainly professional master’s degree programs, most of which offer ethics-related courses as compulsory courses. We found that ethics/ bioethics-related courses are present in all programs, although with different workloads. Further studies are necessary in order to research the methodological approaches to ethics teaching in programs in the field.