Teaching medical ethics: Phramongkutklao College of Medicine's model.
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em Inglês
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| ID: sea-40049
ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
Third-year (first preclinical year) Royal Thai Army (RTA) medical cadets were exposed to a rural community in a community medicine field activity. The poor, kind rural people gave good conditions for student's professional development and empathy.OBJECTIVES:
To report a community medicine field work activity for professional development of the RTA medical school. MATERIAL ANDMETHOD:
Descriptive analysis on two occasions to evaluate the third-year RTA medical cadets' impressions immediately after the community medicine field activity in a rural area in central Thailand and one year later using baseline scores of cadets' impressions against our institute's objectives.RESULTS:
At the end of the field work, 90.9% of the cadets reported they achieved several institute objectives. The four most frequent mentioned were ethical development (70.6%), professionalism (84.3%), human relationship & communication skills (92.2%), and capability to work in the cmmunity (64.7%). Furthermore, RTA medical cadets rated the staff as good role models (51%).CONCLUSION:
The community field work course provided a good environment for the third year medical cadets in building morality and professional development to be good doctors.
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Assunto principal:
Tailândia
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Humanos
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Avaliação de Programas e Projetos de Saúde
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Competência Clínica
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Modelos Educacionais
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Serviços de Saúde Rural
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Educação de Graduação em Medicina
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Ética Médica
Tipo de estudo:
Estudos de avaliação
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Estudo prognóstico
País/Região como assunto:
Ásia
Idioma:
Inglês
Ano de publicação:
2005
Tipo de documento:
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