Challenges for Medical Students in Applying Ethical Principles to Allocate Life-Saving Medical Devices During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Content Analysis.

BACKGROUND: The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic has posed a significant ethical dilemma in the allocation of scarce, life-saving medical equipment to critically ill patients. It remains uncertain whether medical students are equipped to navigate this complex ethical process. OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to assess the ability and confidence of medical students to apply principles of medical ethics in allocating critical medical devices through the scenario of virtual patients. METHODS: The study recruited third- and fourth-year medical students during clinical rotation. We facilitated interactions between medical students and virtual patients experiencing respiratory failure due to COVID-19 infection. We assessed the students' ability to ethically allocate life-saving resources. Subsequently, we analyzed their written reports using thematic analysis to identify the ethical principles guiding their decision-making. RESULTS: We enrolled a cohort of 67 out of 71 medical students with a mean age of 34 (SD 4.7) years, 60% (n=40) of whom were female students. The principle of justice was cited by 73% (n=49) of students while analyzing this scenario. A majority of them expressed hesitancy in determining which patient should receive life-saving resources, with 46% (n=31) citing the principle of nonmaleficence, 31% (n=21) advocating for a first-come-first-served approach, and 25% (n=17) emphasizing respect for patient autonomy as key influencers in their decisions. Notably, medical students exhibited a lack of confidence in making ethical decisions concerning the distribution of medical resources. A minority, comprising 12% (n=8), proposed the exploration of legal alternatives, while 4% (n=3) suggested medical guidelines and collective decision-making as potential substitutes for individual ethical choices to alleviate the stress associated with personal decision-making. CONCLUSIONS: This study highlights the importance of improving ethical reasoning under time constraints using virtual platforms. More than 70% of medical students identified justice as the predominant principle in allocating limited medical resources to critically ill patients. However, they exhibited a lack of confidence in making ethical determinations and leaned toward principles such as nonmaleficence, patient autonomy, adherence to legal and medical standards, and collective decision-making to mitigate the pressure associated with such decisions.

Discrimination of the Governance Principles of Science and Technology Ethics and Dissemination of Ideas / 中国医学伦理学

Ethical governance is inherent in responsible research and innovation. The Opinions on Strengthening Ethical Governance of Science and Technology puts forward five ethical principles: promoting human well-being, respecting the right to life, adhering to fairness and justice, reasonably controlling risks and maintaining openness and transparency. This paper interpreted the ideas, key points and difficulties of these five ethical principles. Three suggestions were put forward to strengthen the ethics education of science and technology: first, optimize the curriculum of science and technology ethics for related majors in colleges and universities, and help young students understand ethical principles and establish the correct ethics view of science and technology; second, colleges and universities should carry out education and training for teachers, researchers, managers and members of ethics committees, and actively explore scientific research ethics training and effect evaluation; third, the professional courses offered by college teachers should be organically integrated with the ideological and political content of the courses to play a warning role.

Preliminary Exploration of Integrating Narrative Medicine into General Practice Education / 中国医学伦理学

In the context of a healthy China, strengthening humanistic literacy education for general medical students reflects the demands of the times, promotes the transformation of medical models, and has important practical significance in reducing the work burnout of general practitioners in practice. Integrating narrative medicine into general practice student education is conducive to implement the patient-centered concept of general practice, provide continuous and systematic medical services, and further improve the humanistic literacy of general practitioners. Based on these, this paper proposed the relevant paths of integrating narrative medicine into student education in general medicine, including changing educational concepts and integrating educational resources, boldly carrying out curriculum reforms and innovating educational methods, fully utilizing parallel medical records and reflective writing, as well as cultivating the habit of lifelong learning.

Enhancing engineering ethics education (EEE) for green intelligent manufacturing: Implementation performance evaluation of core mechanism of green intelligence EEE.

The characteristics of green intelligent (GI) engineering ethics emphasize the necessity of GI engineering ethics education (EEE). The ethics education of GI engineering is in the development stage, and it is urgent to fully understand the significance of evaluating the development of GI EEE. Only based on the GI manufacturing situation system to understand the implementation status of the core education of EEE can we objectively grasp the improvement space of GI EEE. In this study, the corresponding indicators were selected from three dimensions of cultivation education, collaborative education, and situational education to form the element community of evaluation indicators. The fuzzy analytic hierarchy process and the fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method were used to empirically evaluate the implementation of the key mechanism of GI EEE. The results are as follows. (1) The key education of GI EEE includes cultivation education of micro dimension, collaborative education of medium dimension, and situational education of macro dimension. (2) The most important education is to strengthen the ethics education of GI engineering in the training process of college students. The coordination of GI EEE is becoming more and more important, and the integration and construction are the important pursuit of GI EEE. (3) The cultivation education, collaborative education, and situational education of GI EEE are all at a general level. (4) There is not only a gap between theory and practice in GI EEE but also insufficient attention to localization and coordination issues. The willingness of the government to participate in the ethical education of GI engineering is very insufficient. The optimized space of training education includes teaching cases and full-cycle ethical education.

Evaluación de la formación ética en la psicología colombiana / Evaluation of Ethical Training in Colombian Psychology / Avaliação da formação ética em psicologia colombiana

Este artículo presenta los resultados de una investigación dirigida a evaluar la formación ética recibida en los estudios de psicología, que hizo parte del Proyecto "Razona-miento y juicio ético de profesionales de la psicología en Iberoamérica, estudio en Colombia". Para ello, se utilizó una metodología multimétodo con grupos focales en seis campos del ejercicio profesional, un cuestionario de datos sociodemográficos y una escala de valoración de la formación ética, adaptada de Pope et al. (1987). Respondieron la escala 528 psicólogas y psicólogos de diferentes regiones del país, la mayoría egresados después de la Ley 1090 de 2006. En los grupos foca-les participaron 44 psicólogas y 17 psicólogos, con experiencia en el respectivo campo disciplinar. El 86.3 % calificó como buena o excelente la formación recibida en el programa de grado, lo mismo que la mayoría de quienes la recibieron en programas de posgrado o de educación continua. En los grupos focales se comentaron las falencias de la formación ética en los programas académicos y se hicieron recomendaciones para orientarla a modelos situados, previa preparación de los docentes. Se resaltó la importancia del Colegio Colombiano de Psicólogos (Colpsic), en la función de promover espacios para análisis y discusión ética de casos, y la función de la Asociación Colombiana de Facultades de Psicología (Ascofapsi), en la promoción de una educación ética de calidad en los programas de psicología. Se discuten los resultados a la luz del proyecto y de la literatura especializada

An investigation aimed at evaluating the ethical ed-ucation received by psychologists is presented. This research is part of the project "Ethical reasoning and judgement of psychologists in Iberoamerica, a study in Colombia". A multi-method study was applied, with focus groups in six professional areas, a sociodemo-graphic data questionaire and a scale evaluating ethics education, adapted from Pope et al. (1987). The scale was responded by 528 psychologists from different parts of the country, most of them graduated after the Act 1090 of 2006. Participants in the focus groups were 44 females and 17 males, with experience in the respective professional area. Results showed that 86.3 % of the participants qualified as good or excellent the ethics education in their graduate program, similar to the majority who received ethics education in their postgraduate or continued education programs. In the focus groups, commentaries about deficiencies in the academic programs were made, and also recom-mendations to orient ethics education towards situat-ed models, with previous preparation of professors. The importance of the role of Colpsic ­Colombian Psychologists College­ in the promotion of spaces for ethical analysis and discusión, and of the role of Ascofapsi ­Colombian Association of Psychology Programs­ in promoting an ethical education of quality in the psychology programs were emphasized. Results are discussed in the light of the wider project and the specialized literature

Apresenta-se a investigação dirigida a avaliar a for-mação ética recebida nos estudos de psicologia, no marco do Projeto "Raciocínio e Julgamento Ético dos Profissionais da Psicologia na Ibero-América, Estudo na Colômbia". Utilizou-se uma metodologia multi-método, com grupos focais em seis campos do exercício profissional, um questionário de dados socio-demográficos e uma escala de valoração da formação ética, adaptada de Pope et al. (1987). Responderam a escala 528 psicólogas e psicólogos de diferentes re-giões do país, a maioria formados após a Lei 1090 de 2006. Nos grupos focais participaram 44 psicólogas e 17 psicólogos, com experiencia no respectivo campo disciplinar. O 86.3 % avaliaram como boa ou excelen-te a formação recebida no programa de grado, assim como a maioria daqueles formados em programas de pós-graduação e de educação contínua. Nos grupos focais se identificaram-se falências da formação éticas nos programas acadêmicos e fizeram-se recomendações para orientá-la a modelos situados, previa preparação dos docentes. Destacou-se a importância do Colégio Colombiano de Psicólogos (Colpsic) na função de promover espaços para analisar e discutir eticamente casos, e a função da Associação Colombiana de Fa-culdades de Psicologia (Ascofapsi) na promoção da educação ética de qualidade nos estudos de psicologia. Discutiram-se os resultados à luz do projeto maior e da literatura especializada

Differential Effects of Ethical Education, Physical Hatha Yoga, and Mantra Meditation on Well-Being and Stress in Healthy Participants-An Experimental Single-Case Study.

Traditionally, yoga is a multicomponent practice consisting of postures, breathing techniques, meditation, mantras, and ethics. To date, only a few studies have tried to dismantle the effects of each of these components and their combinations. To fill this gap, we examined the incremental effects of ethical education and physical Hatha yoga on mantra meditation using a single-case multiple-baseline design. This study was part of a project evaluating the new mind-body program Meditation-Based Lifestyle Modification. Fifty-seven healthy participants with no regular yoga or meditation practice were randomly assigned to three baselines (7, 14, and 21 days) and four conditions using a random number generator. The conditions were mantra meditation alone (MA), meditation plus physical yoga (MY), meditation plus ethical education (ME), and meditation plus yoga and ethical education (MYE). All the interventions lasted for 8 weeks and were run consecutively according to baseline length. During the baseline and treatment phases, participants received daily questionnaires measuring their well-being (WHO-5 Well-Being Index), stress (Perceived Stress Scale), and subjective experiences. Forty-two participants completed the treatment and were entered in the analyses. We analyzed our data using visual inspection, effect size estimation (Tau-U), and multilevel modeling. Almost all participants showed a longitudinal increase in well-being. Regarding between-group differences, participants who received ethical education exhibited the largest increases in well-being (Tau-U = 0.30/0.23 for ME/MYE), followed by participants in the MY condition (Tau-U = 0.12). Conversely, participants in the MA condition showed no change (Tau-U = 0.07). There was a tendency for the combined treatments to decrease stress. This tendency was strongest in the MY condition (Tau-U = -0.40) and reversed in the MA condition (Tau-U = 0.17). These results emphasize the incremental and differential effects of practicing meditation in combination with other practices from the eight-fold yoga path. This approach is valuable for better understanding the multifaceted practice of yoga. Clinical Trial Registration:www.ClinicalTrials.gov, identifier: NCT04252976.

Teaching Research Ethics to Pharmacists: The Practice of Participatory Learning.

The research history of community pharmacists in Japan is short, and ethical responses may not be mature. Therefore, the Japan Pharmaceutical Association and universities are working on research ethics education to help pharmacists make appropriate ethical responses. In this study, we evaluated whether an educational program using participatory learning was effective in research ethics education for pharmacists. Regarding the educational effects of our workshop, the score for motivation to learn about research ethics was high, and that for judgment and applied skills related to research ethics was low. Overall, participants' assessment of the program contents was extremely favorable, indicating their satisfaction. Participatory learning was widely accepted and suggested to be effective in improving learning motivation. Additionally, to be able to apply the knowledge of research ethics to own research, it was considered necessary to continue learning through participatory learning. This will help pharmacists gain judgment and applied skills related to research ethics.

Truth-telling and doctor-assisted death as perceived by Israeli physicians.

BACKGROUND: Medicine has undergone substantial changes in the way medical dilemmas are being dealt with. Here we explore the attitude of Israeli physicians to two debatable dilemmas: disclosing the full truth to patients about a poor medical prognosis, and assisting terminally ill patients in ending their lives. METHODS: Attitudes towards medico-ethical dilemmas were examined through a nationwide online survey conducted among members of the Israeli Medical Association, yielding 2926 responses. RESULTS: Close to 60% of the respondents supported doctor-assisted death, while one third rejected it. Half of the respondents opposed disclosure of the full truth about a poor medical prognosis, and the others supported it. Support for truth-telling was higher among younger physicians, and support for doctor-assisted death was higher among females and among physicians practicing in hospitals. One quarter of respondents supported both truth-telling and assisted death, thereby exhibiting respect for patients' autonomy. This approach characterizes younger doctors and is less frequent among general practitioners. Another quarter of the respondents rejected truth-telling, yet supported assisted death, thereby manifesting compassionate pragmatism. This was associated with medical education, being more frequent among doctors educated in Israel, than those educated abroad. All this suggests that both personal attributes and professional experience affect attitudes of physicians to ethical questions. CONCLUSIONS: Examination of attitudes to two debatable medical dilemmas allowed portrayal of the multi-faceted medico-ethical scene in Israel. Moreover, this study, demonstrates that one can probe the ethical atmosphere of a given medical community, at various time points by using a few carefully selected questions.

Enseñanza de ética a estudiantes peruanos en la carrera de medicina / Teaching ethics to peruvian medical students

Introducción: es necesario saber si los futuros profesionales abordan temas éticos en los cursos curriculares de la carrera. Objetivo: determinar el autoreporte de la enseñanza de ética a los estudiantes peruanos de la carrera de medicina. Métodos: estudio descriptivo transversal de datos secundarios. Se recolectó la información mediante una encuesta virtual aplicada por los coautores estudiantiles, se incluyó estudiantes de todas las facultades de medicina que al menos hubieran cursado un ciclo académico. Se preguntó acerca de la enseñanza del curso de ética, las clases de ética dentro de otros cursos de la carrera, los tópicos que les enseñaron y otras variables socio-educativas. Resultados: de los 707 encuestados, 56 por ciento (395) fueron mujeres, la mediana de edades fue 22 años (rango intercuartílico: 20-23 años). El 65 por ciento (459) ya había llevado el curso de ética y el 41 por ciento (287) habían recibido alguna clase de ética dentro de los cursos, manifestando que les habían servido mucho al 85 por ciento. El tema ético que más han tratado fue la ética en la carrera de medicina (78 por ciento), seguido de la ética en el manejo de los pacientes (76 por ciento); los menos tratados fueron la ética para el trato con compañeros/colegas (45 por ciento) y la ética en los trabajos de los cursos (51por ciento). Conclusión: si bien existen temas éticos que se enseñan frecuentemente, otros deben tocarse en mayor medida, ya que el no hacerlo podría generar faltas éticas por desconocimiento de los estudiantes(AU)

Introduction: It is necessary to know if future professionals approach ethical issues in the curricular courses of their majors. Objective: To determine the self-report of the teaching of ethics to Peruvian medical students. Methods: Cross-sectional descriptive study of secondary data. The information was collected through a virtual survey applied by the student co-authors, including students from all medical schools who had attended at least one academic cycle. They asked about the teaching of the ethics course, the ethics classes within other major courses, the topics they were taught and other socio-educational variables. Results: Of the 707 participants, 56 percent (395) were women, the median age was 22 years (interquartile range: 20-23 years). 65 percent (459) had already taken the ethics course and 41 percent (287) had received some kind of ethics within the courses, stating that they had served 85 percent. The ethics topic most dealt with was ethics in the medical major (78 percent), followed by ethics in the management of patients (76 percent); the least treated were ethics for dealing with colleagues/colleagues (45 percent) and the ethics in the courses work (51 percent). Conclusion: Although there are ethical issues that are frequently taught, others must be dealt with to a greater extent, since not doing so could generate ethical shortcomings due to ignorance by the students(AU)

Teaching Ethics to Engineers: A Socratic Experience.

In this paper we present the authors' experience of teaching a course in Ethics for Engineers, which has been delivered four times in three different universities in Spain and Chile. We begin by presenting the material context of the course (its place within the university program, the number of students attending, its duration, etc.), and especially the intellectual background of the participating students, in terms of their previous understanding of philosophy in general, and of ethics in particular. Next we set out the objectives of the course and the main topics addressed, as well as the methodology and teaching resources employed to have students achieve a genuine philosophical reflection on the ethical aspects of the profession, starting from their own mindset as engineers. Finally we offer some results based on opinion surveys of the students, as well as a more personal assessment by the authors, recapitulating the most significant achievements of the course and indicating its underlying Socratic structure.

Discussion on the Education and Training of Reproductive Ethics for Infertile Couples / 中国医学伦理学

Normative development of human assisted reproduction technology not only depends on ethics con-sciousness of the employee, effective system guarantee and perfect supervision system but also depends on ethics consciousness of infertile couples. Popularizing the knowledge of reproductive ethics for infertile couples and foste-ring their ethics consciousness is a vital problem of normative development of human assisted reproduction technolo-gy and an effective way to solve the ethical issues of human assisted reproduction technology.

Exploration of the Ethics Issues in Reproductive Medical Treatment Unit at the Present Stage / 中国医学伦理学

Through analyzing the ethical status quo in reproductive medicine treatment unit, this article dis-cussed the social ethical issues brought by ART technology development related to the reproductive medical treat-ment unit. Then it put forward the measures to solve those ethical problems: strengthening the ethical principles and ethical committee construction, sharing data information, fully informed consent, and suggestions to improving ethics education.

About Long-term Hospitalization in Elderly Alzheimer's Patients Nursing Ethical Problem and Countermeasure Analysis / 中国医学伦理学

Alzheimer′s patients bring heavy burden to their family and society, causing potential safety prob-lems unable to escort for a long time with the family, physical constraints between protection and between self-es-teem and the mental health law,the quality of life and life values produce a series of contradiction and ethical is-sues,also make close contact with their nursing staff have to face the moral and ethical dilemma.The suggestions are:Hospital provides professional full-time, professional pension caregivers of alzheimer′s patients for long-term care, Strengthen the communication of nursing staff and patients′families, Reasonable and legitimate use tools, Perfect medical system construction, buildMedical support combinedcare system, Carry out the comprehensive rehabilitation nursing intervention, improve the patients quality of life, Change service concept, strengthening the study of ethical knowledge and application to promote the doctor-patient relationship.

Ethical Issues and Strategies for Medical Examinations and Treatments Using Equipment / 中国医学伦理学

In this paper, the importance of using advanced medical equipment to check treatment was ana-lyzed, and then pointed out that nowadays there were the following problems: the medical staff had excessive de-pendence on medical equipment; medical equipment inspection treatment of irrationality; medical equipment in-spection treatment with humanity was not enough; medical equipment management of dereliction of duty. Put for-ward to strengthen medical personnel professional moral education;to strengthen the medical students' ethical edu-cation;regular hospital manage concept;improve the cognitive level of medical staff of medical equipment.

Inquiry-based Teaching in the Nursing Ethics Teaching Reform / 中国医学伦理学

Objective:To probe the implement of inquiry -based teaching in nursing ethics. Method:105 nursing students attended the innovation of inquiry-based teaching for Nursing Ethics. Results:88. 5% nursing students satisfied with innovation of teaching;82 . 9% nursing studentsethics awareness was enhanced largely in understanding for nursing ethics;68 . 6% nursing students considered that their ability for ethical thinking has been enhanced largely;93 . 3% nurs-ing students thought that nursing ethics was important. Different inquiry methods for nursing students led to different level of analysis ability for ethic cases(P﹤0. 001). Conclusions:It's necessary to perform the innovation of inquiry-based teaching, promoting the student's activity, focus on learning process and enhancing the students comprehensive ability.

Ethical Issues and Countermeasures for the Management of Professional Staff in Hospital / 中国医学伦理学

In view of the present hospital professional and technical personnel in the making , performance e-valuation , salary management , personal development , health management , department management , as well as on the management of some of the ethical issues , analyzes its reason: hospital professional and technical personnel management ethics idea misunderstanding , hospital professional and technical personnel subject ethics value status unclear , hospital professional and technical personnel managers′ethical level is not high .And put forward the con-crete solving measures:strengthen dominated by social responsibilities of ethical supervision and management , es-tablish the principle of fairness , justice , ethics of competition system , director of the department , carried out by both efficiency and fair ethics idea of performance and salary rank management activities , to achieve individual all-round development as the goal of ethical career management , to strengthen the management of managers ethical education .

Ethical education on urology in the undergrafuates' internship / 中华医学教育探索杂志

There is especial request for medical ethics of urology which is different from other dis-ciplines. Medical ethical education must be paid equal attention to expertise culture. And suitable guide wrong value. Practice suggested that we should do as follows : to be strictch by word and deed and to be the first to set an example ; to think by trans- ; to enrich teaching form and to strengthen effects of studying.

Ethical Education about Laboratory Medicine / 中国医学伦理学

The ethical education of laboratory medicine,as the indispensable part of modern medicine practice,hasn't been adequately emphasized,so that non-ethical things often ouur.This artide discusses the importance of ethical education on the field of laboratry medicine.

Creating enterprise education atmosphere in college campus culture / 中国医学伦理学

Being a new kind of education model,enterprise education is an inevitable choice in the development of medical academies and schools in our countries.Meanwhile it gets into pressures come from all aspects.To improve their abilities in enterprise,all medical academies and schools should make best use of campus culture.