SMJ articles in the category "ethics"

Original Article

Ethical and Professional Issues Encountered by Fourth-Year Medical Students during a Critical Care Clerkship before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Objectives: The objective of this study was to describe ethical and professional issues encountered and the ethical and professional values cited by medical students during their critical care clerkship, with a comparison of issues encountered before and during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Methods: In this single-center, retrospective mixed-methods…

Posted in: COVID-19 55 curriculum 16 ethics 7 Medical Students 21

Original Article

Medical Education and the Ethics of Self-Care: A Survey of Medical Students Regarding Professional Challenges and Expectations for Living Healthy Lifestyles

Objectives: Little is known about medical students’ attitudes regarding the healthy lifestyle habits they are taught to recommend to patients and whether they believe they have a professional responsibility to live a healthy lifestyle. Understanding students’ attitudes and practices regarding healthy lifestyles may provide insights into the personal and professional…

Posted in: ethics 7 medical education 73 self-care 3

Multidisciplinary Clinical Case Study

Navigating Clinical Ethics: Using Real Case Constellations to Guide Learners and Teachers in Medicine

Case-based learning is a staple of clinical ethics education in medicine. The sources for medical educators generally are lengthy case books or single, often rare, case analyses in the literature. Busy clinicians may not have the time or inclination to sift through case books to find suitable teaching material, and…

Posted in: decision making 5 education 20 ethics 7

Original Article

Reporting Potential Conflicts of Interest among Authors of Professional Medical Societies’ Guidelines

Background: Limited attention is directed to the potential conflicts of interest (COI) of the authors of practice guidelines writing groups of professional medical societies (PMS) and industry. The objective of this study was to report the proportion of authors with potential COI among guidelines writing groups of PMS. Methods: A…

Posted in: ethics 7 medical societies 2

Original Article

"Murder or Mercy?" An Innovative Module Helping UK Medical Students to Articulate Their Own Ethical Viewpoints Regarding End-of-Life Decisions

This module was designed to equip UK medical students to respond ethically and sensitively to requests encountered as qualified doctors regarding euthanasia and assisted dying. The aim was to expose students to relevant opinions and experiences and provide opportunities to explore and justify their own views and rehearse ethical decision…

Posted in: ethics 7

Expired CME Article

Living Donor Kidney Transplantation: Medical, Legal, and Ethical Considerations

The use of living donor kidneys has dramatically increased the number and success of kidney transplants across the world. But questions remain regarding the subjection of a healthy individual to surgery for the benefit of another. Donors do have medical and financial risks. The stigma of organ brokering remains today,…

Posted in: ethics 7

Original Article

Absolute versus Relative Values: Effects on Family Practitioners and Psychiatrists

Background Research demonstrates that religious values clearly impact on the judgments made by physicians and their patients. One basic dichotomy—belief in ethical values that do not change (absolute values) versus belief in values that change depending on the situation (relative values)—has recently been experimentally associated with different ethical decision-making patterns….

Posted in: decision making 5 ethics 7 family practice 6 medical 2 psychiatry 6 religion and medicine 3
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