Assessing Moral Judgements in Veterinary Students: An Exploratory Mixed-Methods Study from Germany.

ABSTRACT: Although veterinary ethics is required in veterinary curricula and part of the competencies expected of a trained veterinary surgeon according to the European Association of Establishments for Veterinary Education (EAEVE), knowledge concerning the effects of ethics teaching and tools evaluating moral judgement are scarce. To address this lack of tools with a mixed-methods approach, a questionnaire with three case scenarios presenting typical ethical conflicts of veterinary practice was administered to two groups of veterinary students (one had taken ethics classes, one did not). The questionnaire contained both open-ended and closed questions and was analysed qualitatively and quantitatively. The qualitative part aimed at revealing different argumentation patterns between the two groups, w

SUBMITTER: Persson K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8909237 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature