To evaluate the knowledge, attitude and practice of healthcare ethics among medical, dental and physiotherapy postgradua
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To evaluate the knowledge, attitude and practice of healthcare ethics among medical, dental and physiotherapy postgraduate students—a pilot study Veena Pais 1
& Vina
Vaswani 2 & Sudeep Pais 3
Accepted: 21 September 2020/ # Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Abstract Conventional medical training offers little help to students to resolve the ethical dilemmas they face as healthcare professionals. Public awareness of the ethical behavior of medical practitioners has been growing. Aim of this study was to assess knowledge of, practice in and attitudes of healthcare ethics among medical, dental and physiotherapy postgraduate students. A cross-sectional analysis based on a questionnaire was performed at a hospital and dental institution of the medical college. The present study included 60 postgraduate students. The questionnaire on health care ethics is a 44-point self-administered standardized questionnaire that poses ethical dilemmas in 5 vignettes with closed-ended questions to test awareness, attitude and experience in the area of healthcare ethics. In the first half of the questionnaire, knowledge and attitude were assessed using 5 case scenarios representing ethical dilemmas and the participants answered the questions using the 5 point likert scale. The second half assessed the practice of Ethics in research and clinical practice. The expected time to fill each questionnaire was about 10–15 min. 62 questionnaires were distributed. 60 completed questionnaires were returned. The response rate was 96%. The mean age of the postgraduates was 26.23 ± 2.33. Among the participants 28 (46%) were male and 32 (53%) female. 20 completed questionnaires from each, medical, dental and physiotherapy postgraduate students were collected. The multiple group comparison showed that the difference in the knowledge scores were statistically significant between dental (D) and physiotherapy (P) (0.015) and between medical (M) and physiotherapy (0.018) but no significant difference between medical and dental (0.927). Study suggests that abstract knowledge cannot be converted into practical knowledge automatically. There is a major lack of knowledge of the ethics of health care among graduate students. The postgraduate curriculum must include a good mix of both theoretical concepts and practical application of multidisciplinary healthcare ethics ethical principles and guidelines.
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Keywords Medical ethics . Postgraduates . Medical . Dental . Physiotherapy . Attitude
Introduction Health care ethics is a paragliding concept addressing ethical aspects of health care. This addresses ethical dilemmas in choosing the right treatment option, making complex moral decisions, allocating resources to be faced by a patient, their families, and the health care provider. Common ethical dilemmas in health care practice include making end-of-life care decisions, professional misconduct, professional patient relationships with d
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