TV medical dramas: health sciences students' viewing habits and potential for teaching issues related to bioethics and professionalism.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Medical dramas have been popular since their inception, especially among medical students. We hypothesized that the recent increase in the availability of TV medical series through online streaming platforms has probably changed health science students' viewing habits as well as the representation of bioethical conflicts and health professionals.

Methods

We invited undergraduate students of medicine, nursing, and human biology to complete a self-administered questionnaire about their viewing habits and perceptions of the depictions of bioethical issues and professionalism in TV medical series.

Results

Of the 355 respondents, 98.6 % had watched TV in the last year, 93.5 % watched TV series, and 49.6 % watched medical dramas more than once a week. The most-vi

SUBMITTER: Cambra-Badii I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8474903 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature