Situational judgment using ethical reasoning in Saudi undergraduate pharmacy students.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

There is a paramount need for moral development for pharmacists and pharmacy students to practice the patient-centered profession. We aimed to explore the current situational judgment utilizing ethical reasoning among undergraduate pharmacy students.

Methods

A set of ten ethical dilemmas, representing potential real-life situations that the students come across in the university and may face in the future as a pharmacist were developed by a team of students, academic staff, and stakeholders. These ethical dilemmas were validated, checked for accuracy, and piloted. An online questionnaire was created consisting of these ten scenarios as open-ended questions and administered to fourth year and fifth year PharmD students in a public university located at the city o

SUBMITTER: Alkhuzaee FS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9006411 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature