MEDICAL ETHICS EDUCATION IN TURKEY; STATE OF PLAY and CHALLENGES
Medical ethics can be traced back to Hippocratic oat in antiquity. Last decade witnessed improvements in science and technology which attracted attention to the ethical impacts of the innovations in medicine. The need to combine medical innovations with a preservation of human values and to culti...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Informascope
2016-01-01
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| Series: | International Online Journal of Education and Teaching |
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| Online Access: | http://iojet.org/index.php/IOJET/article/view/119/124 |
| Summary: | Medical ethics can be traced back to Hippocratic oat in antiquity. Last decade witnessed
improvements in science and technology which attracted attention to the ethical impacts of the
innovations in medicine. The need to combine medical innovations with a preservation of
human values and to cultivate ethical competencies required by professionalism conceived
medical ethics education in various levels in medical schools. Despite the diversities
regarding teaching hours, methodology and content of the courses, medical ethics became a
fundamental part of medical education around the world. In Turkey medical ethics education
is given both in undergraduate and postgraduate levels. The high increase in the number of
medical schools and shortfall of instructors who have medical ethics as their primary
academic focus creates a big challenge in medical ethics education in both levels. Currently
there are 89 medical schools in Turkey and only six medical schools are giving postgraduate
medical ethics education. In 2010 only 33 of all medical schools could establish a separate
department dedicated to medical ethics. There are no medical ethics courses embedded in
residency programs. The quality and standardization of undergraduate medical ethics
education has started but there are no initiatives to do so in postgraduate level. |
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| ISSN: | 2148-225X 2148-225X |