Using a virtue ethics lens to develop a socially accountable community placement programme for medical students.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Community-based education (CBE) involves educating the head (cognitive), heart (affective), and the hand (practical) by utilizing tools that enable us to broaden and interrogate our value systems. This article reports on the use of virtue ethics (VE) theory for understanding the principles that create, maintain and sustain a socially accountable community placement programme for undergraduate medical students. Our research questions driving this secondary analysis were; what are the goods which are internal to the successful practice of CBE in medicine, and what are the virtues that are likely to promote and sustain them?

Methods

We conducted a secondary theoretically informed thematic analysis of the primary data based on MacIntyre's virtue ethics theory as the c

SUBMITTER: Mogodi MS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6612096 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature