Ethics in medical education, practice, and research: An insight

Abstract

A combination of moral principles and values that are applied to take judgements in medical education, practice, and research are termed as medical ethics. There have been other many traditional medical ethics guidelines brought about by Muslim Ishaq ibn Ali al-ruhawi wrote "the Conduct of physicians", Jewish and Catholic scholastic thinkers over time. Ethics in modern medicine started way back in 18 th century when Thomas Percival, a physician based in England, wrote a book on medical ethics and coined the terminology of medical ethics and medical jurisprudence. The medical profession should be viewed differently and a rethought on the ethical practices is the need of hour to make it an exciting and ful illing profession. A rethink on the status of modern medicine will certainly pave the way for obtaining speci ic answers for many dilemmas in modern medicine including the best ethical codes and practices.

Describing the perceptions of bioethics training requirements among young medical professionals: an observational studies

“…9 Self-regulation as tool for improving the image of the medical professional is proposed by Ramana et al, and this will only be effective with grounded learning of theoretical and fundamental medical bioethics and supplemented through self-reflection about the critical issues related to bioethics in day to day practice. 10 Majority of these professional favour continuum model of training starting from undergraduate years and intensified with mandatory courses during internship. This is similar to findings by Mahajan et al, who recommended an urgent need for fulfilling the above training need.…”

“…9 Medical Universities in South India implement 40 hour module for medical ethics training during MBBS period but such programs and rare and not universally conducted across India. 10 This study findings should contribute to understanding the training needs in bioethics among young professionals who completed undergraduate training and inform training programs enhancing learning through participatory and immersive learning methodologies. With the above background, study was planned to describe the perception about the bioethics training need among trainee interns and junior residents training at tertiary medical teaching hospitals across Tamil Nadu.…”

Medical Ethics

“…Medical ethics is a type of professional ethics. In modern medicine, ethics is believed to have started in the 18th century; a physician by name Thomas Percival authored a book on medical ethics which is believed to be the beginning and development of medical ethics code of conduct [7,12,13]. It is Dr. Thomas Percival who coined the term medical ethics after publishing his book in 1803.…”

¿Certificación en buenas prácticas éticas de la investigación? Una necesidad para incentivar la producción científica.

“…Es común el acuerdo de que un equilibrio entre la capacitación del personal del área de la salud y el respeto de la autonomía del paciente puede dar como resultado un mejor rendimiento en términos de enseñanza, práctica e investigación (Ramana, 2013). De ahí la importancia moral de la formación y el entrenamiento (Savulescu, 1996).…”