Postgraduate ethics training programs: a systematic scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Molding competent clinicians capable of applying ethics principles in their practice is a challenging task, compounded by wide variations in the teaching and assessment of ethics in the postgraduate setting. Despite these differences, ethics training programs should recognise that the transition from medical students to healthcare professionals entails a longitudinal process where ethics knowledge, skills and identity continue to build and deepen over time with clinical exposure. A systematic scoping review is proposed to analyse current postgraduate medical ethics training and assessment programs in peer-reviewed literature to guide the development of a local physician training curriculum.

Methods

With a constructivist perspective and relativist lens, this system

SUBMITTER: Hong DZ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8188952 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature