Persad Govind C, Elder Linden, Sedig Laura, Flores Leonardo, Emanuel Ezekiel J
Department of Bioethics, National Institutes of Health, USA.
J Law Med Ethics. 2008 Spring;36(1):89-94, 4. doi: 10.1111/j.1748-720X.2008.00240.x.
Current challenges in medical practice, research, and administration demand physicians who are familiar with bioethics, health law, and health economics. Curriculum directors at American Association of Medical Colleges-affiliated medical schools were sent confidential surveys requesting the number of required hours of the above subjects and the years in which they were taught, as well as instructor names. The number of relevant publications since 1990 for each named instructor was assessed by a PubMed search. In sum, teaching in all three subjects combined comprises less than two percent of the total hours in the American medical curriculum, and most instructors have not recently published articles in the fields they teach. This suggests that medical schools should reevaluate their curricula and instructors in bioethics, health law, and health economics.
当前医学实践、研究和管理方面的挑战需要医生熟悉生物伦理学、卫生法和卫生经济学。美国医学院协会附属医学院的课程主任收到了机密调查问卷，询问上述学科的必修学时数、授课年份以及授课教师姓名。通过PubMed搜索评估了自1990年以来每位指定教师的相关出版物数量。总体而言，这三门学科的教学总时长在美国医学课程总时长中所占比例不到2%，而且大多数教师最近都没有在他们所教授的领域发表文章。这表明医学院校应该重新评估其生物伦理学、卫生法和卫生经济学方面的课程和教师。
