Attitude survey of bioethics in medical students participating in clinical clerkship training / 医学教育

ABSTRACT

1) 34, 9 and 57% of the 5th year medical students participating in clinical clerkship training program agreed on the need for selecting palliative therapy, death with dignity, and euthanasia, respectively, in response to a terminal stage of malignancy.<BR>2) 60% of medical students supported the organ transplant legislations, but only 23% actually carried an organ donor card. 26% of the surveyed students supported the Japan Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology's attitude towards preimplantation diagnosis.<BR>3) It was pointed out that they had better educated about bioethics.